William Ellery Channing Quotes
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
Quotes to Explore
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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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.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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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.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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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.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
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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.
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There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
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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.
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I love being in my 40s.
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I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night; and then the nap takes me.
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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.
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If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.
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Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece of pie or candy, good thread to sew your blouse, a ribbon to wear in your hair.
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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
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Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
