Robert Walpole Quotes
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.
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I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.
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I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.
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I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
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Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.
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Dreams do come true, believe always. I dreamt every night of becoming a singer
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The concept that you are not ingesting rotting flesh sort of sums it up for me.
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When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
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Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.
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What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.
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My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.
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You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.
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Sometimes God gives instructions that go against conventional wisdom, such as treating people kindly when they're hateful. Who really wants to do that? Instructions like that may not always make sense, so that's why I need to trust and obey the One who inspired them.
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True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
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There is no excuse for it; it has to stop.
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I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.
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Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.
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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
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The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
