Thomas Hood Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!
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Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!
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People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.
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A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
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If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.
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White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.
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At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.
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Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.
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You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.... Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
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So mayst thou live, dear! many years, In all the bliss that life endears
