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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I am certainly not a martyr kind of a person. I love my life. But if one has to, then there is nothing more nobler a cause that I can think of.
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Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.
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Each one fashions and bears his world with him, and that unless he himself become wise, strong and loving, no change in his circumstances can make him rich or free or happy.
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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
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I am young enough to try my hands at all kinds of cinema.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
