Walt Whitman Quotes
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Quotes to Explore
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.
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Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of World Government. It is the primrose path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty. Free trade is a bright shining lie.
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Man, an animal that makes bargains.
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Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
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You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
