Joshua Sylvester Quotes
Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me your humble swain Ascend to heaven, in honour of my Love.
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
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Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
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There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'
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Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.
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To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
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Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me your humble swain Ascend to heaven, in honour of my Love.
