Alfred Billings Street Quotes
Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.
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There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.
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A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
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When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
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I belong to the Congress. My party has always supported prohibition, though it may not have been successful in implementing prohibition in many states.
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What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?
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So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
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If we know we're just going to have sex and then ditch the guy, it can be fun.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
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Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.
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The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.
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How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
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The person who makes all cares into one care the care for simply staying present will be cared for by that presence which is creative love.
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I don't think you can ever do too much. Life would be so boring if you didn't have these, like, holes to fall into and climb out of. I want to do everything. I just want everything. I don't think you can ever have too much.
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Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private.
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I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.
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Just being able to express myself and reach so many other people by doing so is really great!
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I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I understand, as a woman who probably would have been burned in the marketplace for witchcraft only about 200 years ago, that I need the First Amendment more than anybody does. And that even if I am repelled by child pornography or Bob Guccione's productions, that I have to protect those things, because essentially it's in my self-interest to do so.
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You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.
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Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.
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When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.
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We are not helpless. We all have the ability to make this world a better place. We can start with small steps, one day at a time.
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Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.
