Charles Eliot Norton Quotes
There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
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I'm a character actor.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.
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In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor.
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With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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I don't have any regrets. I consider myself really privileged to belong to medicine and do what I do. I would do it all again.
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The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.
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From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.
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Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain.
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A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.
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Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.
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There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.
