Eugene McCarthy Quotes
Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.
Quotes to Explore
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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
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Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."
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We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to read books the better our society will be and the wiser our society will be.
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Work is the basis of living. I'll never retire. A man'll rust out quicker than he'll wear out.
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The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.
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Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.
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She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.
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The most heartbreaking things are the ones that are sometimes the truest.
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It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.
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Enron had already collapsed and filed for bankruptcy protection by the beginning of 2002. But despite complaints from short sellers that corporations had used accounting gimmickry to inflate their profits, many investors thought the crisis at Enron was an isolated case.
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Donald Trump's interest in Russia dates back to Soviet times. In fact, there's extraordinary footage of him shaking hands with Mikhail Gorbachev. It comes from 1988, the peak of perestroika and Gorbachev's efforts to charm the American public.
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I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.
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Instead of plastic surgery, I'd rather have a height enhancement surgery.
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Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth.
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There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.
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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.
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Philanthropy is in the DNA of my family.
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Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults
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Effort is a measure of a Man.
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Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses.
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Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.
