Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
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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.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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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.
Walt Disney
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So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.
J. C. Ryle
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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.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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O fading honours of the dead!O high ambition, lowly laid!
Walter Scott
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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.’
Anthony Burgess
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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.
Anthony Burgess
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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)
Aristophanes
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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.
Benjamin Franklin
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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.
Adam Smith
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I queued 24 hours to see Coldplay, at Koko in London, at the start of the X&Y tour.
Ben Lovett
Mumford & Sons
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The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.
Mick Jones
Foreigner
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Everyone says marriage is hard work, but they don't tell you that actually being yourself and respecting yourself is hard work.
Alexandra Fuller
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The combination of Christian truth and political power led to the creation of the complex that we know so well. … The emperor endows the church handsomely, helps it in all that it does, aids it in its 'mission.' The church supports the emperor’s legitimacy and assures him that he is God’s representative on earth.
Jacques Ellul
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l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.
Vincent Van Gogh
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He was just Ron and I kinda liked him, mostly because he wrote well, and I never felt he took all that Scientology nonsense seriously but knew how to make a good buck, and he liked me, and... well, he was a friend who died.
Harlan Ellison
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The first wild-flower of the year is like land after sea.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
