Philip James Bailey Quotes
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.
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As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.
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I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.
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How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?
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Do your best and forget the consequences.
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There are possibilities that dreams are our little windows upon a parallel timeline.
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I love good romantic comedies. There just aren't a lot of them. But, I love comedies, and I'll never stop doing them.
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How can art make a difference in the world?
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If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.
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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
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When there is pressure for leaders to respond to problems or crises, they often simply intensify their efforts in their particular defined sphere of activity - even if that's not relevant to the real problem. To do otherwise requires taking on entrenched practices and asserting power in areas where it often will not be well received. And leaders tend to see major crises more as threats to their own position rather than as systemic challenges for the societies that they govern or the institutions that they manage.
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Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.
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By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up.
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Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.
