Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow.
Quotes to Explore
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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.
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Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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I'm a vegetarian and change my hair color as much as I can.
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Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
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Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
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Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.
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Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.
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Chasing profits and building a long-term profit model are two different things.
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I can be a bit of a nervous flyer.
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Too many couples break up without understanding the consequences for their families.
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You need the willingness to fail all the time.
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Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.
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Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one’s dignity.
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The arrival of the unforeseen reveals the depths of one's heart.
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An easy thing, O Power Divine, To thank thee for these gifts of Thine, For summer's sunshine, winter's snow, For hearts that kindle thoughts that glow.
