William Penn Quotes
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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Raw fish suppers admittedly require a little planning, not least in the acquisition of the main ingredient.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
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There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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For me personally, I'm an activist, so I see a lot of turmoil and heartache in the world and tragedy.
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Making your dad happy is - especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I'll tell you - it feels really good.
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I think a lot of things could be handled locally.
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Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
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When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.
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If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour.
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It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.
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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.
