Isaac Watts Quotes
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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I am an African and I am very proud of that.
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A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.
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Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.
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Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.
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I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.
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There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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I'm obsessed with frozen yogurt because you don't feel totally guilty eating it. It's not as bad as ice cream, and during the hot summer months, it's a great way to just refresh.
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I try to read as a reader and also read as a writer. I mean, they're not so different.
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... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.
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If and when the war starts(WW2), no matter where or whoever you are or if you are young or old, Northner or Southner, you all have the responsibility of protecting our home and repelling the enemy, you all must have the will to achieve ultimate sacrifice.
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The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.
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The more I go onstage, the more quiet I am before, because I intend to go onstage and slaughter.
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Writing the history of the present is always a very different thing from writing the history of the distant past. The history of the distant past depends entirely on literary and documentary sources; the history of the present always involves unwritten material as well as documents. But the difference was much greater in the days of Thucydides than it is now.
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A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.
