Alexander MacLaren Quotes
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
Carlo Ponti
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
Taylor Swift
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
Joanne Rowling
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H. L. Mencken
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
Hannah Murray
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
Malcolm de Chazal
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I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Between the ideaAnd the realityBetween the motionAnd the actFalls the Shadow
T. S. Eliot
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No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
Edward R. Murrow
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Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.
Alfred Brendel
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Je me suis baigné dans le PoèmeDe la Mer...Dévorant les azurs verts.
Arthur Rimbaud
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I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.
M. F. K. Fisher
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Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
Dean Koontz
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I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.
Donald Miller
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Since love of God is the highest felicity and happiness of man, his final end and the aim of all his actions, it follows that he alone observes the divine law who is concerned to love God not from fear of punishment nor love of something else, such as pleasure, fame, ect., but from the single fact that he knows God, or that he knows that the knowledge and love of God is the highest good.
Baruch Spinoza
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Death in love is the beginning of a eternal life ! Just make your soul free .
Arash
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If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.
Alexander MacLaren
