John Milton Quotes
Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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In the free market, a man born into wealth or who has otherwise acquired great riches can lose his fortune depending on how he chooses to behave. Conversely, a man born into poverty or who has lost wealth once obtained can acquire a fortune, depending, again, on how he chooses to behave.
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Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.
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In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
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What we aim to do, through public pressure, is help the environment protection bureau to enforce the law.
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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
