Thomas Bulfinch Quotes
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
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Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.
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Happiness is not something that just comes to you. It's an active process.
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In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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I'm in awful shape. I'm trying to get in better shape. My girlfriend, she's in good shape. She gives me health tips sometimes, like, 'Hannibal, you're going to die.' Stuff like that.
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I've conducted my campaign thus far in the true American political tradition: I lied about my intention to run ... I have been consistently vague on all the issues ... Therefore I promise you all, my fellow Americans, that I will continue to make promises that I will be unable to fulfill.
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Whatever its imagined virtues, faith is the enemy of open and honest inquiry. Remaining open to the powers of conversation - to new evidence and better arguments - is not only essential for rationality. It is essential for love.
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My heart is torn with the sound of raucous voices,They shout from the slums, from the streets, from the crowded places,And tunes from the hurdy-gurdy that coldly rejoicesShoot arrows into my heart.
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In that year 1865 John Muir offered to buy from his brother … a sanctuary for the wildflowers that had gladdened his youth. His brother declined to part with the land, but he could not suppress the idea: 1865 still stands in Wisconsin history as the birth-year of mercy for things natural, wild, and free.
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I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened.
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My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother.
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' It makes rock concerts look like tea parties.
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To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.
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A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.
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The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.
