William Cowper Quotes
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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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.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
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Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.
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As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way.
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With every film, the pressure is on the rise for the next.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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[Marriage] was the one thing I didn't want to fail at.
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Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
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I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
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Another eminent psychologist, Dr. Aaron Antonovsky, an Israeli medical sociologist, has also attempted to pin down the key psychological traits that allowed some to withstand extreme stress while others did not. He focused on Holocaust survivors and narrowed the search down to three traits that together add to having a sense of coherence: comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness. So “hardy” people have a belief that their situation has inherent meaning that they can commit themselves to, that they can manage their life and that their situation is understandable—that it is basically comprehensible, even if it seems chaotic and out of control.
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Great offices will have great talents.
