William Cobbett Quotes
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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In my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for the presidency of the United States.
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I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.
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Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.
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Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.
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This relationship is going to be built on trust.
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Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.
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The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.
