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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I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
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I mean maybe only a thousand people might listen but it doesn’t really matter about numbers, what matters is your own little community.
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If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
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He makes this favor common to all, because it is propounded to all, and not because it is in reality extended to all; for though Christ suffered for the sins of the whole world, and is offered through God’s benignity indiscriminately to all, yet all do not receive him.
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The soul that suffered from being its body…
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
