James Wallace Butts Jr. (Wally Butts) Quotes
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
Sam Houston
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
Harold Brodkey
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. Philip Randolph
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
Manu Bennett
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
Abbie Hoffman
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
Edmund Spenser
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Ignorance is kind of bliss.
Jackie DeShannon
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I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
Oren Peli
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Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
Camille Paglia
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Rhyme, the rack of finest wits, That expresseth but by fits, True conceit, Spoiling senses of their treasure, Cozening judgement with a measure, But false weight. Wresting words from their true calling; Propping verse, for fear of falling To the ground. Jointing syllables, drowning letters, Fastening vowels, as with fetters They were bound!
Ben Jonson
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If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.
Aneurin Bevan
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Our object to-day is to point out to you, brethren, that tendency we all have to consult another, in order to shun consulting ourselves.
Alexandre Vinet
