William Penn Quotes

He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.

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• Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

  

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• I was a tomboy.

  

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• I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

  

  Radhanath Swami
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• The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

  

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• I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

  

  Jackie Collins
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• I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.

  

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• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

  

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• The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

  

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• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

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• I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?

  

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• If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.

  

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• I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

  

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• My mum taught me to always make sure you protect your skin with SPF. I always make sure I put my St. Tropez SPF on my face every morning, no matter the weather, before I go out of the house.

  

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• If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.

  

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• For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.

  

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• People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.

  

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• I did all sorts of jobs after drama school - working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.

  

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• I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.

  

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• When my husband turned 40, I was obsessed. 'Has he had his medical checkup?' He needed to go to the doctor; he needed to go to the dentist. Any little cough, I was really on him. Then he turned 40, and I thought, 'Maybe that's why I've been so obsessed with his health!'

  

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• Being on the set of Aliens was an amazing experience. I had so much fun, and enjoyed every moment. I think my fondest time would be having the opportunity to work with Sigourney Weaver, one of the classiest people I have ever met.

  

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• The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. Meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.

  

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• He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.

  

  William Penn
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  • Giving
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