Robert Walpole Quotes
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
Robert Walpole
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But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.
Calista Flockhart
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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.
Halldor Laxness
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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.
Rachel Caine
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Jesus is God spelling Himself out in language that men can understand.
S. D Gordon
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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.
Anne Carson
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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.
Antoine Lavoisier
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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.
Napoleon Hill
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Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
Curtis Mayfield
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We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.
L. Tom Perry
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To me, right there, enough said - Kobe Bryant (third team), not acceptable.
Phil Jackson
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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?
C. S. Lewis
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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.
Epictetus
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I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.
Isaac Newton
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There is only one thing in life which never changes, and it is change.
Confucius
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It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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The best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.
Bret Hart
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Oh. Yeah. That does make sense.” Shaylin hesitated. “But I don’t know which dorm room is hers.” “Third floor, number thirty-six. When they shared a brain, they used to say it stood for their chest size. I said it was their combined IQ.” “Of course you did,” Shaylin said. “See, you do understand me!” Aphrodite said with fake enthusiasm.
P. C. Cast
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Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life. The specifications for manufacturing come from the demands of twentieth-century civilization, and it is the business of the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.
Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
