Philip James Bailey Quotes
Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.
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Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.
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When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.
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I grew up in New York, I love New York.
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'You're Ugly Too' isn't a comedy, but it has a lightness of touch with a hard edge. But it's essentially a warm story tinged with a bit of melancholy in the great Irish tradition. I'm very proud of that film.
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I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.
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Let me tell you, there's nothing like pulling up to Fox Studios bumping Jeezy in your Mercedes.
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Memory is this one attempt to not be erased by time. And I think that ties back to what I learned watching my grandmother lose her memories is, you know, we are all facing erasure eventually.
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I think life is pretty awesome.
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I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.
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All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit - the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.
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If you ask me what I should say to the girls who are making money, I think it's as normal as a guy making money.
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In the midst of the turmoil, the fear, the anxiety that's in our nation and in our world, as I was walking and meditating, I heard the voice of God. I've heard that voice many times; it's familiar to me, and there's no way that I can fail to understand it's His voice because I'm familiar with it.
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Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!
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Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.
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It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
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I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.
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He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
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The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.
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Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.
