Edmund Wilson Quotes
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.
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I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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Cursive writing does not mean what I think it does.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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I am very much a Republican.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!
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I loved the world of imagination.
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I don't believe in 50 friends. I believe in a smaller number. Nor do I care about society events. It's the most senseless use of time.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
