William Cullen Bryant Quotes
Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
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A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
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I'm going to say my favorite thing is to eat salads, and I'll be like the altar boy.
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If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher, the law of averages - not to mention the myth of Icarus - predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do, I want you to know this, remember this: There is no such thing as failure.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
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A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question.
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things.
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I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth. The truth is not uplifting; it destroys. I could tell most of the secretaries in the church office building that they are ugly and fat. That would be the truth, but it would hurt and destroy them. Historians should tell only that part of the truth that is inspiring and uplifting.
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...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
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Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.
