Sara Coleridge Quotes
Much waste of words and of thought too would be avoided if disputants would always begin with a clear statement of the question, and not proceed to argue till they had agreed upon what it was that they were arguing about.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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Without a dog, you'd never have anyone demonstrate how important it is to stop every day and smell the roses... and then lift your leg on them.
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My greatest surprise was that so much of what we think is common sense is just prejudice, and so much of what we think is scientific fact is about as scientific as the idea that the sun revolves around the earth.
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According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.
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Both dogmatism and metaphysics … are attempts to project one’s own views on the world, and they are just as much attempts to hide precisely this projection from themselves as well as from their audience.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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Much waste of words and of thought too would be avoided if disputants would always begin with a clear statement of the question, and not proceed to argue till they had agreed upon what it was that they were arguing about.
