Henry St. John Quotes
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Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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I'll tell you what - if you attend a Cowboy-Redskins game, you better not leave 'til that clock hits zero...
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We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.
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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
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Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.
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I wanted to counter apathy and blandness. I wanted to shock homogenized minds with the experience of writing at high voltage. I wanted the press to assert relentlessly literature's importance. I wanted the press to be a national press and of national importance.
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Every decision he made, I think everybody bought into it. Whether you understood it or not, you bought into it. Because he's a champion. He's won five of these or something like that, so you've got to trust a guy that's been here before and his view for our team.
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Character is our destiny.
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Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.
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I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.
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It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
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It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.
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Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.
