Wilfred Grenfell Quotes
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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I do feel like there's a level of ridiculousness going on in electronic music... It's getting borderline absurd out there.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.
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Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.
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I would like to try harder to establish my thought and philosophy strongly and to go back to the universe with my love.
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I try to get up every day.
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Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
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'A dog,' said Mr. Baldock, in his lecture-room style, which was capable of rousing almost anybody to violent irritation, 'has an extraordinary power of bolstering up the human ego.'
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As one of our colleagues recently put it, this Republican pledge of no new taxes is pure Bushlips. It's Bushlips when the president says 'No new taxes' and sends a budget requiring the Finance Committee to raise $20 billion in new revenues: $15 billion in taxes and $5 billion in user fees.
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Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.
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Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.
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Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
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Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.
