George Edward Woodberry Quotes
Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.
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Your opinions are your symptoms.
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I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.
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Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?
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I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified. I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified.
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Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
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“The southbound motorists crawled past, eyeing the conflagration and the quartet of cops who had arrived to eye it as well.”
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When corruption is king, there is no accountability of leadership and no trust in authority. Society devolves to the basic units of family and self, to the basic instincts of getting what you can when you can, because you don't believe anything better will ever come along. And when the only horizon is tomorrow, how can you care about the kind of nation you are building for your children and your grandchildren? How can you call on your government to address what ails society and build stronger institutions?
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It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted.
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I became obsessed with Simian Mobile Disco's music and poorly attempted to make my own techno music.
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He sharpened his flaws and disappointments into daggers.
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Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.
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Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.
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Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.
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it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.
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Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.
