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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I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among a people who routinely referred to the creation of the State of Israel as the Nakba - the catastrophe. And yet I fell in love with and married a Jewish American woman, the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors, both Jewish Austrians.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.
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For a bad hangover take the juice of two quarts of whisky.
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Great offices will have great talents.
