Herbert Spencer Quotes
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.
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Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
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Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
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I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.
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We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
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If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I always understood it. Our enemies have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They have made us become like them.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.
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L'offenseur ne pardonne jamais.1
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It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure.
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It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way, for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult.
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To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
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The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.
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Being an actor opened doors for me to explore my emotions as different people and characters, and expand my own inner soul.
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
