William Godwin Quotes
In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
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I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.
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I don't think the folks in the low-tax states really want to go into a fairness discussion. Residents of Connecticut and New York would love to remind them how much they pay in federal taxes to support programs for Mississippi and South Dakota.
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A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.
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There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', that were made into movies. And I love those movies as much as I love the books. That's really rare.
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The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.
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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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There was always a love-hate relationship with New York in the rest of the country, but I made them feel more love than hate.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
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Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
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The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
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Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem.
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And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.
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In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.
