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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Trauma happens to us, our friends, our families, and our neighbors. Research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown that one in five Americans was sexually molested as a child; one in four was beaten by a parent to the point of a mark being left on their body; and one in three couples engages in physical violence. A quarter of us grew up with alcoholic relatives, and one out of eight witnessed their mother being beaten or hit.
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No one punishes the evil-doer under the notion, or for the reason, that he has done wrong -- only the unreasonable fury of a beast acts in that way. But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong, for that which is done cannot be undone, but he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.
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Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.
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We and the beasts are kin.
