William Cowper Quotes
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
William Cowper
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
Owain Yeoman
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
Eduardo Chillida
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
Barbra Streisand
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
Carlisle Floyd
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
Sam Waterston
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
Ignazio Silone
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I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. You suddenly realize that people are coming up behind you, that maybe somebody might want to replace you for less money.
Callie Khouri
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
Foster Friess
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
Olivia Wilde
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
Victor Hugo
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
Vince Vaughn
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I take a lot of personal pride and motivation to be able to make a difference in areas that may fall through the cracks in R&D across the industry.
Vivek Ramaswamy
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Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.
Fred Upton
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I don't think the majority of people - to be quite honest - care. I think they see me as someone who was at one stage of my life in the IRA, but they see me in the round, as someone who was able to make peace.
Martin McGuinness
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Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written - as long as I keep my senses, at least.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
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It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.
Yagyu Munenori
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O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
William Cowper
