William Wordsworth Quotes
Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.
Quotes to Explore
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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I like buying iTunes. It's instant.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.
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It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
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Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.
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Secularization theory is a term that was used in the fifties and sixties by a number of social scientists and historians. Basically, it had a very simple proposition. It could be stated in one sentence. Modernity inevitably produces a decline of religion.
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The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.
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Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.
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With a horror movie, you don't want to anticipate where things are going to go.
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All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.
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Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.
