William Blake Quotes
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging output, to a contraction of labour supply.
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On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.
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Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something suspiciously bovine about them.
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President Obama deserves our unalloyed praise for hastening Osama bin Laden's demise.
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One out of every eight Pennsylvanians and one in every 720 people in the United States, as well as one out of every 50 engineers and one out of every four meteorologists has a Penn State degree.
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The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.
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I basically walked around with a goiter for four years because I was so afraid of surgery.
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Knowing Myrnin, there could be anything inside, from a body he'd forgotten about to his dirty laundry.
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Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad.
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I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.
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The purpose of Plato, or of Aristotle, as Al-Farabi conceived of it, is sufficiently revealed in this seemingly conventional praise of philosophy.
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People keep trying to make me a movie star but they just don't understand. I'm not a movie star, I'm an actor.
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The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.
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There's only one requirement for enjoying God's grace: being broke . . . and knowing it.
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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
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Truth exists independent of style. It involves all kinds of issues. Properly considered, it's a quest, a pursuit. To say that vérité is more truthful than something that is narrated is just misplaced. Completely wrong. And the fact that people still talk about it as though they're really talking about something... it puzzles me greatly. A moment of reflection about it tells you that it makes no sense!
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In real conversations, we are always trying to outguess each other.
