William Cowper Quotes
Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
William Cowper
Quotes to Explore
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
Vic Fuentes
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That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
Hans Jonas
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I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.
Adam Jones
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I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
Florence King
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Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
Hal Sparks
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Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.
Jeaniene Frost
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All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
Karl Pearson
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Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right" a revolution was fought.
Octave Mirbeau
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To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property.
Barack Obama
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There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.
Ian Bogost
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What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.
Astrid Lindgren
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And with just 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0.
Ian Darke
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I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.
Claudia Schiffer
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They thought we were a bunch of self-satisfying, materialistic, selfish people who would crumble. We knew that's not who we were.
Cokie Roberts
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
Harold S. Geneen
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The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of Europe as though it were its patrimony--unaware, alas, of the fact that Europe's declining power was preceded and accompanied by political bankruptcy, the bankruptcy of the nation-state and its concept of sovereignty.
Hannah Arendt
