William Gurnall Quotes
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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DJ Premier, this guy is like a god, a walking god. Guru, he put it down legendary.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
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I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
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Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
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I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.
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There is no way to know Jackson’s thought process as he prepared to engage the Union army in front of him. He knew very little about it and certainly he had no idea that, at the moment he ordered his men to advance, he was actually outnumbered five to one. But it was characteristic of the man that his means of determining the enemy’s strength was to hit the enemy in the face and then see what happened. Typical, too, was his impatience to fight. As at Port Republic, he chose to attack before his full force had arrived.
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I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped-as it is when you've been shot across the chest.
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You don't want to look too far ahead or get too excited about anything, so I just want to keep doing what I've been doing.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.
