Isaac Watts Quotes
Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
Quotes to Explore
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.
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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
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I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
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For a New York actor, there are two things you look forward to - getting your SAG card and being on 'Law and Order.'
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
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I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the anthem played, thinking about how every single second of training I've done was for this minute and how many people played a role in my achievement.
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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Beulah, Peel me a grape.
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'Music is a fine thing, but metal lasts.' He struck the table with two huge fingers to emphasize his point....As I left, I thought about what Kilvin had said. It was the first thing he had said to me that I did not agree with wholeheartedly. Metal rusts, I thought, music lasts forever.Time will eventually prove one of us right.
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We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.
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I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.
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Knight saved it with his back arm
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Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
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Everybody's talkin' about me, I don't hear a word they're saying, only echoes on my mind.
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Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
