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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Vanity is normal in performers. Does it bother other people? All the time. But nine times out of 10, that says more about them than you.
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People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
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Yet this is the watch by night. Let us all accept new strength, and real tenderness. And at dawn, armed with glowing patience, we will enter the cities of glory.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.