Walker Percy Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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About three months before a contest, I drink a lot of water. I start to drink a lot of water.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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I get hugs all the time from strangers. I do believe that people can feel your persona when you perform live, but it is one of the nicest things if you can translate that on your records.
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From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
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When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
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Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.
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My mom was a history teacher, so I couldn't really avoid history when I was growing up. But we're very light on American history. We don't really have great opportunities to study both the Civil War and the Revolution.
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In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.
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A war is not lost until you consider it lost.
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Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.
