William Wordsworth Quotes
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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My wife and I do not argue. We communicate. We talk. But we've never fought in our entire relationship.
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Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
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Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.
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Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.
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What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.
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I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
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They say gravity is the centre of attraction ; I rather think that noise is. Nothing so soon assembles the inhabitants of a house as a loud and sudden noise : …
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The world that we live in isn't uniform-looking, and the future that we're headed toward isn't uniform-looking.
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It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.
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The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
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I've participated in the Nautica Malibu Triathlon a couple of times, but only in the running portion.
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I saw how hard my parents worked, and I didn't want to be a freeloader.
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My brother and I have a profound nostalgia for our youth, and I think people need to come to terms with things leaving and being gone.
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I can go in front of an orchestra. I can go in front of an audience. But if you see me walking through an audience in the reception or through a lot of people, I'm still shy.
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Everything we say has metamessages indicating how our words are to be interpreted: Is this a serious statement or a joke? Does it show annoyance or goodwill? Most of the time, metamessages are communicated and interpreted without notice because, as far as anyone can tell, the speaker and the hearer agree on their meaning.
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Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.
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We can search for and attain to only one being, that one which was given us, which is within us and which awaits its birth from ourselves. Each day I feel that I leave myself a little more, the better to go toward my encounter with myself.
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Gene Tunney called Gibbons 'the perfect boxer.' Gene said he learned more about the technique of boxing and punching from watching Mike training in New York gymnasiums and in actual fights in Gotham than he learned from any other individual associated with the fistic sport. Moreover, Tunney has told me it was Gibbons' clean-cut victory over Jack Dillon, the mighty light heavyweight from Indianapolis, that inspired in him the belief he could whip Jack Dempsey.
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My owner is life and that's what I fight for.
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For nature then to me was all in all.
