William Ellery Channing Quotes
The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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The future will be better tomorrow.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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I'd rather buy something that is relatively depressed than something that is relatively high.
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The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act would expand research on embryonic stem cells by increasing the number of lines stem cells that would be eligible for federally funded research.
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Every team going to Brazil 2014 will be there to win, and it's going to be a fiercely contested World Cup.
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There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.
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Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.
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The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.