William Cowper Quotes
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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To innovate is not to reform.
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It starts with campaign finance reform.
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Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
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What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.
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We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn't stop with Hiroshima - the Japanese weren't surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or moving vehicles, nothing.
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The first obligation is to the French people and establish solidarity among our own citizens.
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Fleetwood Mac always take a long time to make a record - you know what.
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Dostoevsky was my literary idol for a long time.
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If you look at polls, Hillary Clinton is considered the toughest in a field of men. That`s no small victory for her going towards a general election.
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On the most recent battles on health insurance reform, the women led the battle to end gender discrimination by the insurance companies [where] women paid more and got less of a benefit, and also the whole issue of prevention.
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Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
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When hopes of reform are dashed, people will rise up and seek revolution.
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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.
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Only do what you feel called in your heart to do, and then give all of yourself to the task.
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At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
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Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
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The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have spent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice.
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Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.
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A thief believes everybody steals.
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Stand up for our sick. Stand up for our veterans. Stand up for the elderly. Protect things like Social Security. Stop allowing people to stick their hands in the cookie jar. Create opportunities for people who live in poverty to elevate themselves out of poverty with a hand up, not a hand out. That's what being a Democrat is!
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Remorse begets reform.
