Ezra Stiles Quotes
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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The thing that's good about music-making software like the DAW-kinda systems is that they're all generally the same; the kind of interface is normally laid out in a similar way. Depending on the program, the sounds might be quite different, but they tend to all have a drum machine or synthesizer or a sampler.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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Self-respect knows no considerations.
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What's right with America and what's right with Islam have a lot in common. At their highest levels, both worldviews reflect an enlightened recognition that all of humankind shares a common Creator - that we are, indeed, brothers and sisters.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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When you go through a negative situation, don't think about it. Make it positive.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.
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I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.
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As for the apostolic epistles, what person who is skilled in literary interpretation would think them to be plain and easily understood, when even in them there are thousands of passages that provide, as it through a window, a narrow opening leading to multitudes of the deepest thoughts?
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By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.
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'There's no victory-condition for being human.'
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Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.
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Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet.
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When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.
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Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
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War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.
