Philip James Bailey Quotes
More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
Philip James Bailey
Quotes to Explore
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
Samuel E. Morison
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
Olly Murs
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
Naomi Klein
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Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
Samuel Beckett
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If you love what you do, it's not work.
Payal Kadakia
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Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.
Damien Fahey
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I keep [portraits of Jigoro Kano and a bust] at home, in my residence, where I live permanently. It's a very good, high-quality work by a Russian sculptor, depicting not just a strong-willed but also thoughtful and kind man.
Vladimir Putin
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever.
Albert Einstein
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Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.
William Shakespeare
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I know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.
Callum Keith Rennie
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I have found that searching for insight is more often than not a path to total darkness.
Andrew McMahon
