Phillips Brooks Quotes
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
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I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.
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Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
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In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.
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It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
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A person in my position has to restrain himself.
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We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.
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Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
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Mysticism is the realisation of God, of the Universal Self. It is attained either as a realisation of God outside the Mystic, or within himself. In the first case, it is usually reached from within a religion, by exceptionally intense love and devotion, accompanied by purity of life, for only 'the pure in heart shall see God'.
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I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.
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When I was mayor of Tulsa, Tulsa County was in nonattainment of the 1979 ozone NAAQS, so I have seen firsthand the economic impacts associated with the challenges of attainment and the legacy of EPA intervention that continues long after meeting the standard.
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Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.
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I throw 14 parties a week.
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Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing"- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense. And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.
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Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.
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Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
