John Milton Quotes
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
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There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
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I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.
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But if I keep my core and back strong, the scoliosis doesn't really bother me.
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I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.
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Me, I don't need money.
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I've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.
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The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?
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Wilson was not, in the academic sense, a scholar or historian. He was an enormous reader, one of those readers who are perpetually on the scent from book to book. He was the old-style man of letters, but galvanized and with the iron of purpose in him.
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To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.
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The more our children see men being paid to take responsibility for children, the more respectable it will be for men to do work compatible with their role as dads.
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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Life is all about finding yourself through experiences, and about learning more and more about who you are and what you’re capable of. If you’re getting older and not succeeding in anything or doing anything to make a positive impact on people, then you’re not living. You’re just waiting for death. Get out there and make an impact on people, whether it’s by helping them directly or by doing research to make their lives better or just by inspiring them. Do something good to be remembered for. This is more important than money.
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It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.
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This idea of shared humanity and the connections that we make with one another - that's what, in fact, makes life worth living.
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Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy sprayWarbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.
