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'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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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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Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes!
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One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
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I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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Mantle didn't want to stick out, but he did. He didn't wish to be treated as special, but he was. He was uncomfortable being the center of attention, but he was the centerfielder for the most famous franchise in sports.
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Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
