William Butler Yeats Quotes
For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
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I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
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I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.
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The time necessary for the disappearance of half the atoms, called the half-life, is a fundamental characteristic of each radio-element; according to the substance, the value of the half-life varies between a fraction of a second and millions of years.
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Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.
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Being an actress was kind of like when you’re a kid, and you want to run away and join the circus, it's something you really want to do, but then you grew up and got a proper job. It was a dream, but I didn’t think it would ever be reality, and yet here I am!
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All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.
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But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.
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For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
