Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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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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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.
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It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.
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That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints on this office, I think, sometimes would leave me to mutter under my breath. Very rarely did I lose it publicly. Yeah, usually I'd just smile.
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None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
