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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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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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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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.
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The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatures enlarged from the insect world, and revealed to us by the cinematograph.
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Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.
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Every year, it takes more brains to navigate this complicated world. More people are falling below what I call the 'incompetence line' through no fault of their own.
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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.
