Thomas More Quotes
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'
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If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.
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You give the money where you want it.
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I'm on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a little. I'm not rich, but I can afford a few grand if I have to have my appendix taken out. I can pitch in a little bit.
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.
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It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.
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I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird.
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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
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If we were to use the success of 'Need You Now' as the barometer for every other song, then we'll probably be highly disappointed. That song will probably undoubtedly be the biggest song of our career. We can hopefully have success for 20 years, but we may not ever have the success of that one particular song again.
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So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of you, we are ending these wars in a way that will make America stronger and the world more secure. Because of you.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
