Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
Quotes to Explore
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.
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I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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Real acting is about giving people an insight into a person, letting the audience in.
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I like a bush. A nice big, hairy, stinky, smelly fucking bush. And I hate when they put cologne on it. They dummy it up with cologne like you don’t know where you are. I like that nice natural scent of salmon.
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There's a real art to telling a story in two hours, and that will always be something that people are very, very interested in.
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And when you go to God's house, it ain't got to be no fashion show. You just come as you are.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
