Harry Houdini Quotes
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
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Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it's valid.
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This idea of 'laicite' has been weaponized, in a way, to discriminate against people, and this idea of who gets to be French is really complicated and interesting.
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Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.
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If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.
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Probably, violent things I've done when I was younger, was probably the most despicable thing that I've ever done.
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The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesnt. They can build up fighters or knock them down.
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
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O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.
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Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.
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I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something though was hard. It was hard being between photographs and not knowing when or how another image would reveal itself.
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Some of my best men are women!
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He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.
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Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
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I opened my door and everything they had for me was tainted because the land of Used-to-Be is just full of ghosts starving for your breath.
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I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.
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God respects you when you work, but He loves you when you sing.
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I do not believe that ghosts or spirits exist.
