Eustace Budgell Quotes
When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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Love is the one wild card.
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My hair is naturally blond and thin, so I like to give it some texture. Sexy, dirty bedhead is good for blonds.
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A number of organizations are already using Web GIS to create shared information and facilitate collaboration, and it is literally changing the way organizations operate.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.
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There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like that.
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I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.
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A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.
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Personally, I think there's a lot to recommend being friends with your ex, and I'm glad to admit that I'm living proof of its possibility.
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It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
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A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.
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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
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As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.
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Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. If there has been, I have yet to discover it. But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because ... America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist.
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When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?
