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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We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.
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Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.
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Stillness is the ruler of haste.
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Sometimes following God means throwing caution to the wind. Sometimes caution is a symptom of faithlessness.
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I love the impatience of New York... You ever had somebody not ask you for directions, but demand them? You're just innocently walking down the street, you hear a horn, all of a sudden some guy's like, 'HOLLAND TUNNEL!!!' ...You know, like you were supposed to fax this guy directions. Suddenly, you're wasting HIS time.
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Haste makes work which caution prevents.
