Richard Steele Quotes
It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
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Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.
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I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.
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Oh, so they have internet on computers now!
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The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.
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...they cupped their wings around their happiness and called it a world, though they both knew it was not a world, only a hiding place, which is a very different thing.
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The emergency funding measure cannot be short-sighted -- it cannot simply replace bullets for bullets and bombs for bombs spent in Kosovo.
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Before the boiling of blood and the searing of skin comes the secret catastrophe: Before Life on Earth becomes finally merely impossible, it will for a long time before have become completely unbearable.
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This will be a team that could possibly have the ability to surprise some people.
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What interest, zest, or excitement can there be in achieving the right way, unless we are enabled to feel that the wrong way is also a possible and a natural way, nay, more, a menacing and an imminent way? And what sense can there be in condemning ourselves for taking the wrong way, unless we need have done nothing of the sort, unless the right way was open to us as well? I cannot understand the willingness to act, no matter how we feel, without the belief that acts are really good and bad.
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Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead."
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May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late.
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Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all.
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
