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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If forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain, so you can keep an eye on him and nudge him if he falls asleep or point out any mountains looming up ahead.
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We Americans are idealists. We are willing to follow the truth solely because it is the truth. We put our main emphasis on the things which are spiritual. While we possess an unsurpassed skill in marshaling and using the material resources of the world, still the nation has not sought for wealth and power as an end but as a means to a higher life.
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Throughout the world, our insistence on individual freedom and opportunity has been at the bottom of what people think when they hear the very word 'American.'
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I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.
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Top-rank global corporations are collapsing. That could happen sometime, and somehow even to Samsung.
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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
