Will Durant Quotes
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.
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A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
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A twinge at the edge of her lips and she continued, the soft, slow lilt of recitation: "Ancient walls that sing the distant hours.
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O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.
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If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, God speed her! She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.
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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.
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Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.
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I will not pray clarity for you. Clarity is the crutch of the Christian. But I will pray trust for you, that your trust will increase.
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I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.
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That's why my attitude, even on my larger-scale movies, is to make them cheap. The less these things cost, the better for everybody.
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You can get too heavy on the masculine side of things with all of the action, but then we've got a really nice balance going on when you go home and look at the wives' story lines and what's going on on the home front. I think people really respond to that balance of masculine and feminine.
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Too many pass judgement on wartime decisions in the luxury of a peacetime environment.
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I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.
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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
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If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
