William Allen White Quotes
You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual', but bi-curious? Yea.
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I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?
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As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.
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What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy’s point of view.
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Trying to project our expectations and our desires onto the sci-fi being written in China now isn't terribly helpful.
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It is interesting to come across people who feel that a ghost communicating via a spell-checker is less far-fetched than a software glitch.
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You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive.
