William Penn Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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There is a saying: 'The child is parent to the adult', which means whatever happens to you as a child or teenager affects the adult you become. You are forged in your history. And fiction is an incredibly important force in shaping children, and that's why fiction needs to be diverse.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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I owe everything to France.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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My passion is to create a better society for our future citizens.
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The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'
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That's how I got my name, you know. The Bonny scot, see?
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The feeling of love is a rich feeling, but the expression of love in word or deed is a joy.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
