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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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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I've always been one of those folks who think competition is actually a good thing. And if we're going to preach it as a party, we need to practice it.
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But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.
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Eventually, I'd love to be known as a character actor.
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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
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Completely strange faces pop up as interesting points through the crowd. I am carried along with the current, lacking will. To move becomes an unacceptable effort describing the crowds in Dresden.
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Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
