William Butler Yeats Quotes
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Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.
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Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.
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One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.
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The white man's blood and bones have begotten this bronze race, and bequeathed to it in some degree qualities, tendencies, capabilities, such as are the inheritance of the highest order of human animals.
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Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
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It certainly is a situation of great delicacy but, at the same time, one in which it would seem I hold fifty per cent of the bargaining power in order that the Duchess and I can plan for the future in the most constructive and convenient way.
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The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greatest part of skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it is any where directed, or applied, seem to have been the effects of the division of labour.
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The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
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I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.
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We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.
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The movies are not my first priority - the theater is.
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I think the building is in very good condition.
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Together, we are prepared to lay a foundation for a more secure future for the entire world
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I have recently observed and stated that the serum of normal people is capable of clumping the red cells of other healthy individuals... As commonly expressed, it can be said that in these cases at least two different kinds of agglutinins exist, one kind in A, the other in B, both together in C. The cells are naturally insensitive to the agglutinins in their own serum.
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All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.
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We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor.
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Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject.
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People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
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Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.
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Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy.
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Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.
