William Cowper Quotes
Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable and thriving, but it can also tip over and become an arid steppe if pushed too far by warming, land degradation, and biodiversity loss.
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Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war.
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There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.
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Women on the way up generally fail to win popularity contests. The only compensation is that once you're there you will become very well liked.
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Believe it or not, when I get in contention I can still hit the shots.
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When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.
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Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
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There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--
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The mind of a the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
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Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.
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Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.
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Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
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We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse, and as dead as King Tut. We are suffering not from a lack of correct heads but of consumed hearts.
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... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
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Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
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You have to remember where all this dust is coming from, ... There is a political advantage to the opposition to have this happen.
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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
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Facts cling to photographs like dust.
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I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.
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Follow thou thy choice.
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Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
