Herbert Spencer Quotes
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To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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The Left doesn't understand the importance of God in the Israeli public discourse, and Yesh Atid does.
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What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.
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It's all for a reason and all happened the way it was supposed to happen.
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I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.
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It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,And tempted her out of her gloom.
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...we like somebody who succeeds with such bad conscience, and who seems to wish that he had the nerve to be a failure or, better still, something to which the terms success and failure don’t apply-as when Mallory said, about Everest: 'Success is meaningless here.'
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Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.
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Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look Across the roofs as sigil and as ward And in your centre mark them and are cowed . . .
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This is George Bush’s accountability moment.
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Young And Wired, Set To explode in the heat.
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Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
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People only change when it becomes too dangerous to stay the way they are.
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Fear not the thunder, little one.It's weather, simply weather;It's friendly giants full of funClapping their hands together.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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Her least favorite thing: VOLUNTARY IGNORANCE
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
