Noah Webster Quotes
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The world is always terrible.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
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The thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
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But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.
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Today, the culture can hardly, if at all, reflect the society in which people live.
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I would do anything to put him behind bars for life. I am glad he is no longer alive.
Nastassja Kinski -
Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery. Now you would have me explain the miracles of Jesus. We are all the miraculous gesture of the moment; our Lord and Master was the centre of that moment. Yet it was not in His desire that His gestures be known.
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Action, not words.
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Common sense solutions to lowering your gasoline bills can go far. Carpooling, taking fewer or shorter road trips, and ensuring that your tires are fully inflated can all help stop the pinch at the pump.
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There's an oft-used shorthand for the technologist's view of the world. It is assumed that libertarianism dominates Silicon Valley, and that isn't wholly wrong. High-profile devotees of Ayn Rand can be found there.
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Overly simplistic suggestions that we ban people from entering this country, based on religion, or ban people from an entire region of the world is counterproductive. It will not work. We need to build bridges to communities, to American-Muslim communities right now, to encourage them to help us in our homeland security efforts.
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The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.
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Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.
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If one can judge from the letters that I receive, it would seem that there are many thousands of children who would like me to speak or to read to them.
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It's an honor to have been part of something so core to so many lives. The show has evolved beyond it's original intent and form and has transcended... itself!
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Hitler also anticipated modern economic policy . . . by recognizing that a rapid approach to full employment was only possible if it was combined with wage and price controls. That a nation oppressed by economic fear would respond to Hitler as Americans did to F.D.R. is not surprising.
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Evil is mostly confusion seeking to evolve itself into love.
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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
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Overall, our population is in the worst shape it's ever been. Children are in terrible shape. We have absolutely unprecedented numbers of obese and overweight children - one in three now. A generation ago it was something like one in ten.
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If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.
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The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.
