J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.

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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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High school is the time to find yourself and to explore with fashion and create your own identity.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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The fact is that Superman isn't around because he is the oldest superhero. He's still around because he is a great superhero. He's the guy that spawned the entire genre, and that didn't happen because it was a mediocre idea.
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First of all, I want to thank the Buccaneers for giving me the opportunity and for picking me in the draft. This is the nature of the beast, though, and this is a new start for me. I wish them the best of luck, and I am just glad to be a Bear.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.
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I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.
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But I'm a big believer that government does not have a monopoly on good ideas.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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I'm rather pro-prostitution, I admire people who do it. It can't be much fun. Thank goodness for it. People need relief or they become murderers.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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I grew up in a small town in Georgia where nothing bad happened - it was like Mayberry.
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He knows that for all the undeserved bounty of his life, she will always be there, at the edge of his vision, to remind him of all the things he can never have.
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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.