William Cowper Quotes
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Corporations that are formed for the purpose of earning profits do not have the constitutionally protected rights that natural citizens have. They should not spend their corporate dollars, Treasury dollars, to influence outcome of elections.
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The neutral view of free will is impossible. It involves choice without desire.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.
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Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.
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It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .
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The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release the right response than to send the right message.
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A good cover has a distinct silhouette
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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
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Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a useless dreamer. And that was the great difference between these two who loved each other so well.
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I'd love to design a school.
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I believe that their is a duality to the purpose of our life, and it is LOVE and CREATION. To LOVE the life we have - authentically and unconditionally, while we CREATE the best life we can imagine - actively and persistently. This is what L.I.F.E. (Living Inspired & Fulfilled Everyday) is about!
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O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.
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Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.
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The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.
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In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.
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I can kill a dog in six ways. Five of them are throwing missiles at it.
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Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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Become. It was a verb that had always obsessed me, but I realized it for the first time only in that situation. I wanted to become, even though I had never known what. And I had become, that was certain, but without an object, without a real passion, without a determined ambition.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
