Ambrose Philips Quotes
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.
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Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.
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I am a Gemini and can adapt to most atmospheres. You get two for the price of one when you are a Gemini.
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The professor must be an obscurantist or he is nothing; he has a special and unmatchable talent for dullness, his central aim is not to expose the truth clearly, but to exhibit his profundity, his esotericity - in brief to stagger sophomores and other professors.
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Terry Farish seems to breathe the reader into the emotional spaces of war, exile, and refugee life. The Good Braider is a delicate stunning exploration of its young protagonist's life and heart.
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Satyagraha is an opera which I wrote for the Netherlands Opera, so it uses an orchestra of around fifty, a chorus of forty, and there are about seven soloists. The opera ... Satyagraha means truthful, so it was a name [Mahatma] Gandhi used to describe his civil disobedience movement.
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There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
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Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.
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The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.
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So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.
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A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.
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When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it – MS overall, as a subject, as a disease – there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.
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Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.
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Timely blossom, Infant fair, Fondling of a happy pair.
