William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.
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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
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I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.
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Why would anybody say no to somebody's happiness?
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There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.
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The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated damsel and go to sleep in her lap, and thus the hunters take it.
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
