William Wordsworth Quotes
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
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The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.
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For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless. And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
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Only God is love, and for this love to be fully realized self must step aside. And not only do we not need a self to love God, but for the same reason we do not need a mind to know him, for that in us which knows God, is God.
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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
