Northrop Frye Quotes
I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.
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I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.
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I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
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True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.
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I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
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I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.
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There are only about four hundred people in New York society.
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To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however 'good' I may become, remains unchanged.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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God will take you through hell, just to get you to heaven.
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Tugend ist zur Energie gewordne Vernunft.
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I'm not looking back, but I want to look around me now. - Time Stand Still (1987)
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I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.
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Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.
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When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.
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I think revolution happens when you distrust anything in its current state, including yourself.
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
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Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.
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I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.
