Thomas More Quotes
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
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Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.
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Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.
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Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.
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Everyone has a different training style and being a female, sometimes you find you have to get really aggressive. Some people respond really well to aggression, some people don't.
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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
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Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.
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The weather is so very mildThat some would call it warm.Good gracious, aren't we lucky, child?Here comes a thunderstorm.
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But in cherishing all that is best in the land of your origin, and in desiring the highest welfare of the people of the old home, the question arises as to how that result can best be secured. I know that there is no better American spirit than that which is exhibited by many of those who have recently come to our shores.
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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There he heard a Lady talking,To some milk-white Hens of Dorking,-'Tis the lady Jingly Jones!On that little heap of stonesSits the Lady Jingly Jones!
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Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.
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La maladie est le plus écouté des médecins: à la bonté, au savoir on ne fait que promettre; on obéit à la souffrance.5
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There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?
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The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.
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A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it, and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.
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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
