William Shenstone Quotes
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
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I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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I'm happy with my commercial heroine tag.
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I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.
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Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.
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Sometimes, the most daunting thing about performing is making eye contact with your audience, so just look above them and at the corners of the room. Soon, you'll totally forget they're there.
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I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
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I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
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When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.
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It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
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I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.
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I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
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Under the dominion of the priests our earth became the ascetic planet; a squalid den careering through space, peopled by discontented and arrogant creatures, who were disgusted with life, abhorred their globe as a vale of tears, and who in their envy and hatred of beauty and joy did themselves as much harm as possible.
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Anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred are the real troublemakers, with them problems cannot be solved.
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Unwittingly, the feminists acknowledge the superiority of the male sex by wishing to become like men.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I always look forward to getting back East. I miss the cold weather and the Jewish delis.
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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
