William Cowper Quotes
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.
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It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.
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When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
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It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
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Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.
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One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and vendors, have little relevance when trying to create good government.
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Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
