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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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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I'm not a massive artist by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, I've been in papers and magazines, but you never have any idea if anyone actually reads it or pays any attention.
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The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
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When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.
