William Cowper Quotes
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine.
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People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.
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I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
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We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
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I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
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Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help.
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The test of truth in life is not whether we can remember what we learned in school, but whether we are prepared for change.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
