Homer Quotes
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.
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Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
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I have a very big family and a lot of friends, and buying presents is one of my favorite things to do.
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Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.
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All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.
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If I'm really honest, I can't cook. I'm, like, the worst, worst, worst cook in the world.
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'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
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Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
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It is a wise child that knows his own father.
