Wendell Phillips Quotes
Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.
Wendell Phillips
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
Samantha Power
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
Ram Kapoor
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
Washed Out
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You find your limits by going out and trying. We're just like anybody else in any other job. You just can't work 90 hour weeks. You can't do it. We can't sing seven days a week.
Kristian Bush
Sugarland
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The more technologically advanced our society becomes, the more we need to go back to the basic fundamentals of human communication.
Angela Ahrendts
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I knew Eddie wasn't feeling very good for the last week, ... He was home and kept saying he wasn't feeling good and we thought it was just 'road tired.' So we thought he just had to rest.
Eddie Guerrero
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To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each moment -- what He requires of us, and to leave ourselves, our friends, and every interest at His control, with a cheerful trust that the path which He marks out leads to our perfection and to Himself, -- this is at once our duty and happiness; and why will we not walk in the plain, simple way?.
William Ellery Channing
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One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable.
Marvin J. Ashton
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Races love to be judged in two ways-by the great men they produce, and by the average merit of the mass of the race.
Wendell Phillips
