Ernest Thompson Seton Quotes
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I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.
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Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.
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I, uh...I have a television, so I'm going to spend some time here to tell you some things. [To orchestra conductor:] And, and...and sir, you're doing a great job, but you're so quick with that stick, so why don't you sit. 'Cause I may never be here again.'
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No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.
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There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.
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I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.
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Every child has a dream, to pursue the dream is in every child's hand to make it a reality. One's invention is another's tool.
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As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.
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There is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty prevent competitive sectional bargaining for wages from setting up a vicious spiral of rising prices under full employment.
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I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
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I think change is always scary but also always good.
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It’s a rare reader who doesn’t go to the novel looking for a kind of encouragement to live.
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Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine.
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There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.
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What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.
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Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who are from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts, but brothers, not rivals, but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence...The difference... is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging.
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In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.
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Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?