Ethel Merman Quotes
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
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Russia holds a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. This is a privilege, and it is a responsibility. Yet in Syria and in Aleppo, Russia is abusing this historic privilege.
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The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
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It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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Or, bide thou where the poppy blows With windflowers fail and fair.
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It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.
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I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death.
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We'll see how the guitar players of the world take to it.
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“I never try to please others when I make music; There is only one person who has to like what comes out of those speakers and that person is myself!”
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Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.
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Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
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Sometimes people leave you halfway through the wood. Others may decieve you - you decide what's good. You decide alone, but no one is alone. People make mistakes. Fathers, mothers, people make mistakes, holding to their own, thinking they're alone. Honor their mistakes. Fight for their mistakes. Witches can be right. Giants can be good. You decide what's right. You decide what's good.
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I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.
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As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
