William Ellery Channing Quotes
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
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At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
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Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.
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I don't want this office, this responsibility, any longer, even if you want me. Find the strongest and most able and God bless you. Good-bye.
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I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.
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At Bonobos, we believe in the future of men.
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The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
