William Godwin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.
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Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.
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I don't deny that I had a very privileged upbringing, but my parents and that town maintained a sense of normalcy that I think many people find hard to achieve, and I am so grateful for that.
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I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.
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If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
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I have the feeling I’ve been— unpleasant.
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I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.
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We've improved the machine, found some good tires and I think I've improved my riding as well over these past two days.
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I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.
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I have a major problem with the division that occurs because of the division of language.
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There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
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You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.
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Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
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It took me fifty years to deal with the Holocaust at all. And I did it in a literary way.
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Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.
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Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.
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I enjoyed it [commercial work] until I stopped. You could travel and get around. I can't really explain why, I just didn't want to do it anymore.
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The point is that only one thing matters in this world, to prepare oneself for death. One can try to be as comfortable as possible until one dies... Because being comfortable does not have any meaning either. It just does not. Everything is only a big meaninglessness that one must bear.
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A market does not culminate in one grand blaze of glory. Neither does it end with a sudden reversal of form. A market can and does often cease to be a bull market long before prices generally begin to break.
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Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
