William Allen White Quotes
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.
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My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.
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I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.
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Hmmmm...There certainly are a lot of pretty boys in this world.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
