Robert Walpole Quotes
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
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But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.
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From the very first, my countrymen have followed my literary career, now criticizing, now praising my work, but hardly ever letting a single word be buried in indifference.
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He broke the kiss and leaned against her, breathing hard. "Good morning to you, too. Man, I just can't stay mad when you do that.
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Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.
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What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
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Sulfur, when burning, absorbs oxygen gas; the resulting acid is considerably heavier than the sulfur burned; its weight is equal to the sum of weights of the sulfur burned and the oxygen absorbed.
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Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.
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Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
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We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.
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If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
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A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.
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I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.
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There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change.
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It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.
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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
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With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.
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The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate the globe. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.
