Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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I have a couture body.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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I love helping out good people who are doing good things.
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Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax.
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
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Ozzy is a powerful and attractive man. When I grow up I want to be Ozzy.
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God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
