William Barclay Quotes
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
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To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
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All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
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There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.
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Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
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Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
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The purpose of computers is human freedom.
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For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
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Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.
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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
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William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
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There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.
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Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
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I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.
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To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked.
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All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.
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An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.
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Jesu, the very thought of Thee With sweetness fills the breast.
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God himself took this human flesh upon him.
