Isaac Watts Quotes
Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.
Quotes to Explore
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
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Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
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Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
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At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
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So not only are we saving lives now, we're creating the incentive for the breakthroughs that over the next generation will mean we can take AIDS, malaria and TB and bring those numbers dramatically down.
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I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.
