Washington Allston Quotes
All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.
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I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
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The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
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I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.
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When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
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I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.
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The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.
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I played lots of fantasy games. I would create these worlds, and I would believe in them.
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I believe in the jury system.
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I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
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What ardently we wish we soon believe.
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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
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We want young people to know what they believe, why they believe it. I believe America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic; I want to see the nation return to the Judeo-Christian ethic.
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As to the latter point - that by having a child in America you are somehow starving a child in Bangladesh - remember that agricultural economics is not a zero-sum game. Farmers want to make a living, so as demand increases, so does production. Not only that, but agricultural productivity has increased so rapidly that in some countries the government pays farmers not to plant crops in an effort to keep food prices from dropping.
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I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.
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I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.
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I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.
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All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.
