William Penn Quotes
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There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
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Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies
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If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.
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Shawty Imma only tell you this once, you the illest And for your loving Imma die hard like Bruce Willis
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In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.
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things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.
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How does [Mitt Romney] explain all of those terrible things he said, you know, that - to the Kellyanne [Conwey] point.
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Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances
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If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.
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No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.
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Where does the body end and the mind begin? Where does the mind end and the spirit begin? They cannot be divided as they are inter-related and but different aspects of the same all-pervading divine consciousness.
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The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.
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...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.
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That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.
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Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
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"We die," she said, "we die together. That's the deal."
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The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.
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Virtue lives when Beauty dies.
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One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.
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Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.
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Creativity requires a lot of pass/fail/start again and it is often hard on the psyche.
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Death cannot kill that which does not die.
