Stephen Fry Quotes
Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
Stephen Fry
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[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will.
Immanuel Kant
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
Vincent Van Gogh
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If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other.
Epictetus
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No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
Yanni
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He who hoards much loses much.
Lao Tzu
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I asked an 85 year old professor, 'What makes you cry?' He said, 'Whenever I see or hear the truth.'
William Sloane Coffin
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We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.
Eleanor Farjeon
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I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.
Alicia Keys
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Each character has their own challenges. The challenge to doing one scene is your whole history of who you are and your relationships, you only have this one shot.
Viola Davis
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The western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
Tommy Franks
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But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example of the proverb, 'The harlot reproves the chaste.' For those who have set up a market for fornication and established infamous resorts for the young for every kind of vile pleasure - who do not abstain even from males, males with males committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest and comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways, so dishonoring the fair workmanship of God.
Athenagoras of Athens
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Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
Stephen Fry
