Joseph Addison Quotes
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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Political correctness kills discussion.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.
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I only seem to date younger women.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.
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Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.
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Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
