Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.
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I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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The shrine is vowed to freedom, but, my friend, Freedom is but a means to gain an end. Freedom should build the temple, but the shrine Be consecrate to thought still more divine. The human bliss which angel hopes foresaw Is liberty to comprehend the law. Give, then, thy book a larger scope and frame, Comprising means and end in Truth's great name.
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The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.
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There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.
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Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.
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There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.
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A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
