William Penn Quotes
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.
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I became famous almost before I had a craft.
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We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.
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I was good at keeping my mother from crying.
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The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.
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When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.
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Generally, there are three rules when it comes to borrowing money: You need to have good credit, proof of income and cash for a down payment. Most people have the first two, but it's the third that trips them up. And nowhere does that come into play more than the mortgage market.
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True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
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With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.
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How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.
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I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.
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No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.
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Childhood is the sleep of reason.
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The complete disregard for the camera's presence indicates its complete saturation in their lives. The subject neither notices nor seems to care that someone has been invited into their private moment.
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At once, good night- Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
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I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?
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Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.
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There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.
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My belief in ghosts swings with the wind. But my belief that the cemetery felt happy and not sad-I've never changed my mind about that.
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Haste makes work which caution prevents.
