William Penn Quotes
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.
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We should learn to think with our fingers.
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Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.
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I'm a suspicious mulatto, which means I'm too black to be white and too white to be doing it right.
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How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.
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Being told that you are good at banter is like being told that you are a good person.
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You don't start out getting into the gym and bench pressing 300 pounds. You start out by doing the bar.
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I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves.
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I've always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it's important that there are members of the House of Lords who are willing to vote for their own demise.
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You got to be careful mentioning people as great as Clint Eastwood. You can't put me in the same sentence as that man.
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?
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On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the bearer of a new and possibly saving heresy, must be free. It is difficult enough to reconcile these two needs, but the problem holds another hazard: the need of action under the pressure of time.
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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
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If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.
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What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.
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Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
