Joseph Priestley Quotes
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.Joseph Priestley
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For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have news for you: his 'Faust' blows it out of the water.
Kage Baker -
It is even more so when it comes to Iraq, which is a large Arab country with scientific, material, and human resources and is able to accomplish, at the least, what Lebanon accomplished, and more.
Bashar al-Assad -
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
Larry Harvey -
I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
Mallory Ortberg -
My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.
Quincy Jones -
Siempre me fue más fácil amar que elogiar.
Antonio Porchia
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Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.
Chuck Berry -
Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.
Lauryn Hill Fugees -
Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.
Ole Hallesby -
Once in a while I say, 'Go for it' and I eat chocolate.
Claudia Schiffer -
The self-organizing and self-correcting imprint is on all aspects of reality. So not only was your body formed by this invisible hand, not only does your body continue to work by this invisible hand, but every aspect of your life - emotionally, physiologically, and spiritually - is also programmed to thrive, is also programmed for self-organization and self-correction.
Marianne Williamson -
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
Tom Stoppard
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Now social media is a centerpiece of our lives. It can be a useful tool for connection and communication. It can ease the isolation that so many people feel in the modern world. But like anything that is powerful, it can have a bad side. As adults, many of us are able to handle mean words, even lies. Children and teenagers can be fragile. They are hurt when they are made fun of or made to feel less in looks or intelligence. This makes their life hard and can force them to hide and retreat. Our culture has gotten too mean and too rough, especially to children and teenagers.
Melania Trump -
Difficulty shows what men are.
Epictetus -
There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.
George Eliot -
Training is a case of stress management. Stress and rest, stress and rest...
Brooks Johnson -
He found some dignity in the back pocket of his newly acquired pants and walked up into the main apartment, only tripping once. Or twice.
Charlie Jane Anders
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Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
Albert Einstein -
No diety will save us; we must save ourselves.
Paul Kurtz -
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.
Cesare Pavese -
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.
Joseph Priestley