William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham Quotes
The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever. But I'm not so interested in nostalgia. I'm interested in the future.
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The United States, therefore, works to ensure that any actions we take are consistent with international laws and norms - including those reflected in the Law of the Sea Convention. It's worth remembering that our presence in the region is nothing new.
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If someone analyzed your words today, what percentage would be tender, encouraging, uplifting, faith-building, and joyful? Would it match Christ's proportions?
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You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.
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As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.
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It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness caused to blaze forth in unparalleled radiance.
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Keep walking. Hot night right now, right here. All you have is what you are. All you want is much too much. All you get is so much less. All you feel is nothing. All you see is darkness. All you know is senseless and all you can do about it is ride.
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I'm missing a knuckle, it's crushed inside my hand at the moment.
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Schoolchildren don’t normally learn this poem about Columbus’s second voyage to Hispaniola Haiti and the Dominican Republic today: “In fourteen hundred and ninety-five, sixteen hundred people he kidnapped alive.
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The hard part is what separates good from great.
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I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can’t wait for the chance to try again.
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I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing.
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The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.