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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With the rights now in our loving hands, I'm beyond excited to bring 'The Green Hornet' into the 21st century in a meaningful and relevant way: modernizing it and making it accessible to a whole new generation. My intention is to bring a gravitas to 'The Green Hornet' that wipes away the camp and kitsch of the previous iteration.
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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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He sang his last song. And the words of that have never been written down. But it was sweet and of great beauty, and those that heard it were changed utterly. Some say it was the song that moves the stars.
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There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.
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When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.
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People, particularly over-moralistic Americans, have often seen me as a pessimist and humourless to boot, yet I think I have an almost maniacal sense of humour. The problem is that it's rather deadpan.
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Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
