Isaac Watts Quotes
Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
Harold Ramis
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I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly.
D'Angelo
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
Jack Kemp
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
Nate Silver
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It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
Yvette Nicole Brown
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I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.
Edgardo Osorio
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Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.
Patrick Marber
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I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.
Jackie Robinson
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Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.
Anthony Trollope
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It started when i heard your song of love Pouring down like honey from above I started to spin, i started to move Just like a needle that is sticking through the same old groove
Andy Partridge
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Don't take any shit from anybody!
Billy Joel
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With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,Forever most divinely in the wrong.
Edward Young
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Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
Linus Torvalds
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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
Antonio Porchia
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are ridiculous-looking - especially her. They're so strange and charismatic and weird. It's pretty hard to take your eyes off them.
Chelsea Handler
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
Kate Bush
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A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so hoyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them.
T. H. White
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I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd
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Which I wish to remark,- And my language is plain,-That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain,The heathen Chinee is peculiar.
Bret Harte
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Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.
Isaac Watts