William Cowper Quotes
But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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I was born with an evil face.
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My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'
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The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.
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Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
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The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.
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Yesterday's truth is today's bullshit. Even yesterday's liberating insight is today's jail of stale explanation.
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Slogans which deafened us so that we could not hear the truth.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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But what is truth? 'Twas Pilate's question put To Truth itself, that deign'd him no reply.
