William Butler Yeats Quotes
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.
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I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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So many people think they need to have serious equipment. In the magazines and the media, they see all this stylish stuff, especially on TV, and they think, That's what I need to make it work. You don't. I'm attempting a little bit of liberation here.
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Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
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I don't care about making a fool of myself on stage anymore. I don't care what people think.
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When E! ended the show, it wasn't because it was low-rated. It was because E! did not want to pay union rerun dues.
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Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but he warns us against the commission of those beings which are esteemed lawful among men....Therefore, with regard to this precept of God, there ought to be no exception at all, but that it is always unlawful to put to death a man, whom God willed to be a sacred animal.
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For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.
