William Godwin Quotes
We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
William Godwin
Quotes to Explore
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
Said Sayrafiezadeh
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
Carine Roitfeld
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
Farrah Fawcett
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
Ed Asner
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
Mahershala Ali
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There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Oh, lovely Europe, your flowers and your wine, your bread, your music.
Belva Plain
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You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.
Carl Hagelin
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There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.
Zadie Smith
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On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which becomes at the White House is more in keeping with the temperament, but when taken into consideration that I go into history as President, and my children and my children's children are the better placed on account of that fact, I am inclined to think that to be President well compensates one for all the trials and criticisms he has to bear and undergo.
William Howard Taft
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We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.
William Godwin
