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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I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.
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My dog is half pit bull, half poodle. Not much of a watchdog, but a vicious gossip!
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The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.
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For an hour, blended with all she could offer, something noble had been created which had nothing to do with the physical world. And from the turn of his throat, the warmth of his hair, the strong, slender sinews of his hands, something further; which had. Though she combed the earth and searched through the smoke of the galaxies there was no being she wanted but this, who was not and should not be for Philippa Somerville.
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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.
