Joseph Addison Quotes
To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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We were descended from royalty.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.
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What was taken by force, can only be restored by force.
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I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.
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TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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Until now, physical theories have been regarded as merely models with approximately describe the reality of nature. As the models improve, so the fit between theory and reality gets closer. Some physicists are now claiming that supergravity is the reality, that the model and the real world are in mathematically perfect accord.
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Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the cheerful, sad -- the high-spirited, tame; our strongest resolutions, our hardiest energy fail before it. Believe me, you cannot prophesy of its future effect in a man from any knowledge of his past character.
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
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While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.
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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.
