William Godwin Quotes
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
Quotes to Explore
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!
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We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.
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We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.
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My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.
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I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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Only the dead will know the end of the war.
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If…if I had his education, Kantaylis thought, surprised at the sudden intensity of the desire. If I could I’d study this business, read up on it, read all there is to be read about it.
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And if it turns out that she’s the one, no matter what, remember what you’re fighting for, even if it feels like you’re the only one fighting sometimes.
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THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
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As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
