J. Frank Norris Quotes
To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Sometimes you will think you can't take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.
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Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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Verse in itself does not constitute poetry. Verse is only an elegant vestment for a beautiful form. Poetry can express itself in prose, but it does so more perfectly under the grace and majesty of verse. It is poetry of soul that inspires noble sentiments and noble actions as well as noble writings.
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The Spurs are a great organization.
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I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.
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Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better to conquer yourself than others. When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a deva nor gandhabba, nor a Mara banded with Brahmas, could turn that triumph back into defeat.
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To be wise means to be a teacher, means to be a soul winner. That's our business - That's our only business!
