Thomas Hood Quotes
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
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Now I've literally become neighborhood watch. I call 911 on people. I'm the old man driving 25-miles-per-hour down Sunset.
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If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.
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Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value.
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I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded.
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Fear requires a desire to exist in the future.
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We are a multitude of selves, and the sooner we learn that, the better. And in that rich alliance of psychological Aspects lies the very secret of our practical operative stability. Only because we change our positions constantly in reference to the psyche and the world are we able to manipulate physically and translate inner experience into sense terms.
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
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You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!
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I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.
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Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?
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Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.
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In fact, one day I was going to Jackson and I saw a huge sign that U.S. Senator John Stennis was speaking that night for the White Citizens Council in Yazoo City and they also have a State Charter that they may set up for "private schools." It is no secret.
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I could be a real jerk on the days I was pitching.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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In Europe, we would congratulate anyone who is successful. But congratulations stop if we find that you start to misuse a dominant position.
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That means more to me, truthfully, than commercial success. To be a loved human being is much more important to me then any of those other things.
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The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations
