Isaac Watts Quotes
If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.
Quotes to Explore
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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As a political current, Maoism was always weak in Britain, confined largely to students from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Any anxieties publishers have about putting a child on the front cover of a book who isn't white is very old fashioned.
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The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
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Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.
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Just as being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant toward the nice; being accommodating toward anyone committing a nefarious action condones it.
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I'm not good at the protocols of dating. laughs I'm not really experienced in that. My girlfriend is my second or third girlfriend. I think in the past none of us really knew when we were 'dating'-we were just hanging out and doing things. I didn't go to high school so I missed the prom.
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Beulah, Peel me a grape.
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The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
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Like all fads, corporate governance has its zealots
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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Well, I'm not going to be singing about lollipops because I no longer relate to lollipops.
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Remember we're all in this alone.
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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
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I love people talking about me; I love anybody just looking at me.
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Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.
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In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to Tilda Swinton, to Hugh Hefner, to Sharon Stone and her ferocious sexuality, to handsome men I see on the streets of New York.
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If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man.
