Will Durant Quotes
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
Quotes to Explore
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Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.
Gabrielle Roy
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Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
Camille Paglia
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The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
Edmund Burke
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The boy had to pay the piper, so they all stay in fear of the neighborhood sniper
Eric Lynn Wright
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We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.
Emmanuelle Beart
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We need to be realistic. There is very little we can do now to stop the ice from disappearing from the North Pole in the summer. And we probably cannot prevent the melting of the permafrost and the resulting release of methane. In addition, I fear that we may be too late to help the oceans maintain their ability to absorb carbon dioxide.
Prince Charles
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We take it for granted that we can see at all times of day and night. But there was a time, not all that long ago, in the age before electricity, when night brought total darkness - and with it, a not-so-small amount of terror. We get a sense of this when we go camping or when there's a power outage, and our fear of the darkness is primal.
Jake Halpern
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It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.
George Gissing
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I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.
Maisie Williams
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I just spent three years on 'The Office.' I made enough money that I can take five weeks out and do a play.
David Denman
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As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It's also because our founder was under twenty. From the very beginning we have been discounted and discredited, underestimated and undervalued. And, for the most part, we wouldn't have it any other way.
Ally Carter
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
