Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
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The best way to travel abroad is to live with the locals.
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
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Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.
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I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.
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All I can say is, I don't encourage younger kids to read my books, and actually, the biggest age group on my Facebook page is 25- to 35-year-old women.
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If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.
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Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
