William Ellery Channing Quotes
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.William Ellery Channing
Quotes to Explore
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
Mae West -
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon Hill -
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
Isaac Asimov -
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
Manoj Bhargava -
Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
Ban Ki-moon -
Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
M. Esther Harding
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At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they're thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.
Ira Glass -
Google never knew how successful key words would be.
Yuri Milner -
The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.
Oliver Tambo -
But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
Obie Trice -
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
Gabriel Byrne -
When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.
Ira Glass
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I love being in my 40s.
Laura Dern -
I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
Samuel Johnson -
One is forced to remember how far from 'self-expression' great poems are - what a strange compromise between the demands of the self, the world, and Poetry they actually represent.
Randall Jarrell -
A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
Wallace Stevens -
There is a month, a year, there is a time In which majesty is a mirror of the self: I have not but I am and as I am, I am.
Wallace Stevens -
We have this day restored the Sovereign to whom all alone men ought to be obedient. He reigns in Heaven, and with a propitious eye beholds his subjects assuming that freedom of thought, and dignity of self-direction which He bestowed on them. From the rising to the setting sun, may His kingdom cum
Samuel Adams
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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
Aristotle -
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Mario Puzo -
What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
Anyone can call himself a promoter. Anyone can call himself a promoter and stage a fight. Unlike other professional sports, whose owners collude out of mutual interest in their sport's image and general welfare, there are no real alliances or partnerships in boxing.
Tahl Raz -
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
William Ellery Channing