William Thomas Cummings Quotes
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I'm scared to fall in love, afraid to love so fast, cuz everytime I fall in love, it seems to never last.
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The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.
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Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
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Men are clinging to football on a level we aren't even aware of. For centuries, we ruled everything, and now, in the last ten minutes, there are all these incursions by women. It's our Alamo.
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If you are sure that He is calling and you can be sure that He will also remove the barriers that would preclude your service, in His perfect timing. Rest in that.
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A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
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A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
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Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
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I’m not against thinking; I’m only against thinking that thinking on its own will get you out of a hole. Shovel also needed.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don't.
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[Baz Luhrmann] is very serious - he wants it done and he wants it done accurately. He was in the studio actually when I recorded "Everybody's Free." I remember meeting him and him being amazed by my voice.
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Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included.
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Sometimes you just gotta trust that your secret's been kept long enough.
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A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.
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There are no atheists in the foxholes.
