William Butler Yeats Quotes
Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.
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The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I prefer atrophy over exercise any day.
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Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. It's the 'All Right Wall of China.'
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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We had no local representation whatsoever. They just said this is what is good for the listeners.
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How highly should we honor the Macedonians, who for the greater part of their lives never cease from fighting with the barbarians for the sake of the security of Greece? For who is not aware that Greece would have constantly stood in the greater danger, had we not been fenced by the Macedonians and the honorable ambition of their kings?
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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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Either we trust in God, and in that case we neither trust in ourselves, nor in our fellow-men, nor in circumstances, nor in anything besides; or we do trust in one or more of these, and in that case do not trust in God.
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Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.
