William Kingdon Clifford Quotes
There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I want to have a long career.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
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Every day I think, this will be the day I get taken in again . . . .
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'Maybe his characteristics are recessive. Maybe ours will cancel his out.' 'I wouldn't lay any money on that,' Baines said. 'I think I know already which of the two strains is going to turn up dominant.' He grinned wryly. 'I mean, I'm making a good guess. It won't be us.'
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
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There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.
