William Somervile Quotes
Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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If you develop just one muscle, one skill, make it the ability to focus and just get on with it. It will not only make you desirably employable, but it will make you happy.
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A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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I think so badly of philosophy that I don't like to talk about it. … I do not want to say anything bad about my dear colleagues, but the profession of teacher of philosophy is a ridiculous one. We don't need a thousand of trained, and badly trained, philosophers - it is very silly. Actually most of them have nothing to say.
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The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much unintermittent gloom.
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20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
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What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
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What makes a really great fighter is a combination of ingredients: one is everything physical that you can do, and the other is what's mentally there for you. And I think that comes down to how big your heart is and what's driving you.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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We can all live longer, better, than we ever could before. You don't have to retire.
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There are so many possibilities of life out there that an alien doesn't have to have green, long tentacles. They can be very similar to us.
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One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.
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THE ONLY STABLE THING IS MOVEMENT
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It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.
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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.
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They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
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Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.
