Will Durant Quotes
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
Orison Swett Marden -
My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
Kapil Sibal -
To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
Langhorne Slim -
I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
N. T. Wright -
I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
Imogen Poots
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
Adam McKay -
I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
Earl Scruggs -
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
Dalai Lama -
I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
Karen Armstrong -
I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.
Taylor Schilling -
Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
Jaclyn Smith
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I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
Daniel Cormier -
To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
Magic Johnson -
I used to cuss in my tweets, and now I don't.
Cameron Dallas -
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.
Jack Kerouac -
I wished to give a complete relation to your Highnesses, and also where a fort might be built…. However, I do not see it to be necessary, because these people are simple in weapons…. With fifty men I could subjugate them all and make them do everything that is required of them.
Christopher Columbus -
Veritatem Temporis filiam esse dixit.
Aulus Gellius
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There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.
Hari Kunzru -
I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.
Chaz Bono -
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.
Mark Hatfield -
Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
Will Durant