Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
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If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.
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I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
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I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
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In every case, the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists, who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.
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There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
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Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.
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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
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When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.
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Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.
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I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.
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The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
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It is a sunny fall afternoon and I’m engaged in one of my favorite pastimes—picking chestnuts. I’m playing alone under the spreading, leafy, protective tree. My mother is sitting on a bench nearby, rocking the buggy in which my sister is asleep. The city, beyond the lacy wall of trees, is humming with gentle noises. The sun has just passed its highest point and is warming me with intense, oblique rays. I pick up a reddish brown chestnut, and suddenly, through its warm skin, I feel the beat as if of a heart. But the beat is also in everything around me, and everything pulsates and shimmers as if it were coursing with the blood of life. Stooping under the tree, I’m holding life in my hand, and I am in the center of a harmonious, vibrating transparency. For that moment, I know everything there is to know. I have stumbled into the very center of plenitude, and I hold myself still with fulfillment, before the knowledge of my knowledge escapes me.
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Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.
