Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

Henry Ward Beecher

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• Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

  

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• Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.

  

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• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

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• President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.

  

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• Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.

  

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• I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

  

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• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
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• I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

  

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  • Think
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• I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.

  

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• People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.

  

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• Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.

  

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• I don't believe in miracles.

  

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  • Believe
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• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
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• Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.

  

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• I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

  

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• I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.

  

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• The military executes policy decisions.

  

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  • Military
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• There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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  • Woman
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• I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.

  

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  • Men
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• Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Life
  • Rewarding
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• First of all, I try to be a positive role model.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Positive
  • Model
  • Try

• Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Purpose
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• There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Heaven
  • Woman
  • Slave