William Penn Quotes
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Quotes to Explore
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
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As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.
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Not until the human heart is stolid to poetry, the human eye blind to beauty, not until the intellect ceases its quest for truth and conscience finds its quietus either in universal defeat or in triumphant success, will organized religion cease to be.
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If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist.
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
