William Cowper Quotes
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effectively, and at the same time, that our men and women in uniform have everything they need to carry out the War on Terror.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
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In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and I think it's pretty well borne out - is that in the '80s, games got gory, and that lost the women. And then they got complex, and that lost the casual gamer.
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From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch. Fire answers fire, and through their play flames Each battle sees the other's umbered face. Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.
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Your ability to work with others on a complex task is a critical skill for advancement at work.
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
