Richard Whately Quotes
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
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Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
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Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.
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All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
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Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.
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I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.
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Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.
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I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.
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Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.
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This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I'm like, "Who am I? Where's my heritage?
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Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?
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The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.
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When you are right,you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.
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Half of the people in the world are below average.
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Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.
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May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.
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I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.
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What wealth have you, if you have not got Christ? If Christ is the object before you, will all the things that fret you take Christ from you? All the things you long for, will they give you more of Christ?
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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
