William Butler Yeats Quotes
I bear a burden that might well try Men that do all by rule, And what can I That am a wandering-witted fool But pray to God that He ease My great responsibilities?
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
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We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.
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There are three classes of human beings: men, women and women physicians.
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Look at these humans! How could such glacial slowness even be called life? An age could pass, virtual empires rise and fall in the time they took to open their mouths to utter some new inanity!
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I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.
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The world can do nothing to a Christian who has no fear of man.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I bear a burden that might well try Men that do all by rule, And what can I That am a wandering-witted fool But pray to God that He ease My great responsibilities?
