James Boswell Quotes
When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
Quotes to Explore
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My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.
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I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you dishonor or disrespect Christ. If you're making a mockery of Christ is one thing. But if you're just joking about human foibles and weaknesses, I think that's perfectly acceptable.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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Africa is the future.
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I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
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There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
