William Penn Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
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Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
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Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
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I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
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I'm not tall enough to be a model, but I wish I was 6-foot, because I love it. It's kind of artsy, and I'm artsy. And I love clothes.
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I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
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I believe I have a lot to learn in life, still.
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Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.
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They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.
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Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
