James Anthony Froude Quotes
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
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Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
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Well, I'm a professional.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
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I would have to be able to come and go as I please. I could not sit in some office.
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I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.
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If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc.
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While being in the right seat at the right game might create short-term reassurance, I can't get over the idea that really what people feel is that their club is being run by a group of guys who know the history, study the heritage and view Villa as a proud Victorian club in its third century.
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I have never, ever, received any taunts or any form of anti-Semitism. And I suppose being a Jewish football player with the Atlanta Falcons was no different than being a Baptist football player with the Atlanta Falcons. But in the back of your mind, you always expect something to happen.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.
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In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy.
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History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
