William Cowper Quotes
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.
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I love what I do.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
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'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the idea of taking a French legend and making it some kind of really strange, almost Chinese action movie. The result is something that I haven't seen anywhere before.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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I have a weird and undying love for George Michael. He's the reason why I want to do what I do.
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Such photographs exist in every family. They were caught in a few seconds, the duration of the exposure, and these second have become an eternity.
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'Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.'
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.
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We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone, Which spake in Greek simplicity of thought, And in the forms of gods and heroes wrought Eternal beauty from the sculptured stone - A higher charm than modern culture won, With all the wealth of metaphysic lore, Gifted to analyze, dissect explore.
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.
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I love being around people that are smarter than me, that think faster than me. So even if you're a dork, and you wear stupid clothes, and you make a fool of yourself, and everyone makes fun of you, and you're just an idiot-I don't care about the context. I don't care. If you're genius and I recognize it, I kind of dig that.
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We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
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Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
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I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
