Philip James Bailey Quotes
Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.
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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
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Fitness really changed my life.
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People need to climb the mountain not simple because it is there But because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit.
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Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
