Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
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So you had to rev your engines, to beat the Russians and I think more than anything, if the Soviet team would win, or the Soviet athletes would win, you would see and hear and read about that. Quite frequently. So they would make a big issue of it.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
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All you've got to do is own up to your ignorance honestly, and you'll find people who are eager to fill your head with information.
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So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.
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Is it possible for us to witness a world without America and Zionism? You should know that this slogan, this goal, can certainly be achieved.
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O fading honours of the dead!O high ambition, lowly laid!
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‘She is a goddess,’ said Ambrose, drunkenly and stoutly. ‘…And she wants me. She’s the pursuer…She’s the epitome of woman, not,’ he said, ‘not a second-hand bundle of coy erogeneity draped,’ he said, ‘in an all-too-diaphanous robe,’ he said, ‘of pudeur.’
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There he lieth, tossing in the guilt of his lewdness, the primal lecher, neglectful of his duties to a fair wife but all too ready to plunge his sizzling steel into the slaking black mud of a base Indian.
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Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I think opinions should be judged of by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me.
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In reality, during the continuance of any one regulated proportion, between the respective values of the different values of the different metals in the coin, the value of the most precious metal regulates the value of the whole coin.
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The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.
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Bluegrass is in my blood and in my ears.
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The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.
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As we go star-stilled in the mystic garden, All the prose of this life run there to rhyme, How eagerly then will the poor heart pardon All of these hurts of Time!Ah, yes, in that hour of our souls dream-driven, In that high, white hour, O my wild sea-bride, The tears and the years will be all forgiven, … And all be justified.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?
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I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.
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The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.
