William Godwin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written on paper. They are written in the back pasture and the near meadow, and they are issued in a new revised edition every April.
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Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.
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Anything that I can do with Jennie Garth, I would love to do it. I really like her. I got along with her really well, and I enjoyed her perspective on life. I think she's really talented and very, very funny.
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Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom.
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Building on our Young South-east Asian Leaders Initiative, I'm hopeful that we can continue expand the ties and cooperation between our young people and students.
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Life is a plant that grows out of death.
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What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.
