William Blake Quotes
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
William Blake
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Nun 1: Sir, it is only a play... with music. Do not distress yourself.
Peter Greenaway
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Through your thoughts, you create your own games, and you win your own games because perhaps you have forgotten how to play the real game. What is the real game? It is the game in which the heart is entertained, the game in which you are entertained. It is the game that you will win.
Prem Rawat
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Women, once sex gets out in the open, they become monsters. You're a creep if you fuck them and a creep if you don't.
John Updike
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Those of you who have fallen prey to any kind of addiction, there is hope because God loves all of His children.
M. Russell Ballard
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You just do the best you can. It doesn't necessarily mean that you have to get worse the more you do it. It can get better, I think... aspects of it, anyway. I mean, I don't write as much as I used to. But I don't do a lot of things as much as I used to. So that's the natural order of things, too. You're more or less living in the present. You're just trying to get that next song, whatever it is. And not think too much about what happened on the last record, or the record you made 20 years ago, because those are over with. Those are done.
Loudon Wainwright III
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It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!
Eleanor Porter
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Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.
Jane Austen
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The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
Albert Einstein
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I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
William Howard Taft
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The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
William Blake