William Feather Quotes
The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
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Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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When I lived in London, I worked three jobs and had such long work days.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
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Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
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I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.
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When I walk on stage, it's the 'healing floor.' No matter how bad I'm hurting, I get out there and do it.
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It is what we fear that happens to us.
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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.
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Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling, and clear in wanting
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The wise man seeks little joys, knowing that life is long and that his quota of great joys is distinctly limited.
