William Penn Quotes
The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
Quotes to Explore
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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More than 200,000 kids have had their lives transformed by ARK. I use that word properly.
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Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.
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'Feminism' is such an incredibly awkward word for us these days, isn't it? Not to be feminist would be bizarre, wouldn't it?
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.
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I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.
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Tagliatelle comes from the word tagliare, meaning 'to cut.' Tagliolini are simply thinly cut tagliatelle.
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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
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What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.
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'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.
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'Power' is an explosive word, particularly when applied to women.
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Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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What man is a man who does not make the world better.
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
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Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility.
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When I was 9 or 10 years old, my dad took me over to a neighboring farm to help get stuff for the meal. The farmer, Vic, told me to look at all the turkeys and pick one out. I saw a cute one with a silly walk and cried, 'Him!' Before my pointing finger had even dropped to my side, Vic had grabbed the turkey by the neck and slit the animal's throat. Blood and feathers went flying. I had sentenced that turkey to death! Up until then, I didn't know where meat came from—and I've been a vegetarian ever since.
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The unspoken word never defeats one. What one does not say does not have to be explained.
