Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden Quotes
Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.
Quotes to Explore
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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Whatever you are doing, give it all of your attention. Prioritise what you're going to do carefully, and then be in the moment.
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There is no handbook about how a career is going to go.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
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I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.
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We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.
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There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions. … It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory.
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The sight of Oakland sprawling on the horizon gave Emily’s spirits an additional boost. Oakland was by no means lovely, but it meant they were almost to San Francisco.
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Tugend ist zur Energie gewordne Vernunft.
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I'm not looking back, but I want to look around me now. - Time Stand Still (1987)
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A couple alleged males attempted to sucker punch a 100-pound woman and missed. And they ended up with their faces smashed in and spending the night in the Pima County Jail, where I'm sure - being good liberals - their views on gay marriage will serve them well.
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As with most physical activity, yoga helps boost your immune system. However, it also stretches and strengthens your body simultaneously, while also balancing your mind and spirit. It benefits the whole human.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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I get excited by being in the studio and could never get burnt out in there.
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Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
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I will be off the bike for about a week but look forward to resuming my training.
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The anti-hero or hero usually has a journey or quest so they are interesting as you find out what's going to happen, what they are looking for. What are they trying to do? Sometimes what they do is heroic or comes with a price or sacrifice or maybe the way they do things isn't so great and that's when they become anti-heroes. But the journey of an anti-hero combined with a good story done well is always worthwhile.
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Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.
