J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes
If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour.
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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
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People are people, regardless of who they love or what gender they relate to.
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We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
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When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.
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Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
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Hold on to the great image, and the whole world follows, follows unharmed, content and completely at peace.
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A man, whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is awakened from his slumber.
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Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.
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What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?
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Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.
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Lenny Kravitz was the biggest gentleman on set. He always helped the ladies, like by pulling out the chair for them. If we were both walking, he would always stop and let me go before him-little things like that.
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Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
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Hatred - The anger of the weak.
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I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I'd always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.
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The Koran is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror.
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I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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One thing about golf is you don't know why you play bad and why you play good.
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Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
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You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.
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If you took this thing on yourself, unwilling, at others' asking, then you have pity and honour from me. And I marvel at you: to keep it hid and not to use it. You are a new people and a new world to me. Are all your kin of like sort? Your land must be a realm of peace and content, and there must gardners be in high hounour.
