William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Quotes
True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
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Songs are a way to express what I have felt. A way to understand what happened to me or to other people.
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It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country music. Country was taking place inside the studio and it was an export.
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Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.
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I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.
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As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.
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We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more [Christlike], that we do not become discouraged and lose hope. Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
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If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.
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Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.
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They used to draw cartoons of Jews in Germany. Later they started killing them in the Holocaust.
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Why do the people think so little of death? Because the rulers demand too much of life. Therefore the people take death lightly.
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A good impression is lost so quickly.
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So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.
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It does not mean you're broken to have depression and anxiety. I would encourage you to speak out. Don't hold it inside. Talk to friends. Talk to parents. If it's available, go to a therapist.
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The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood—and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition.
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We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will "tolerate" us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.
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They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time. The gap widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, and what it has become is beyond me. This level of marketing reduces to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical significance of this work.
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I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.
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I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure, Sky-bound was the mind, earth-bound the body rests. [Kepler's epitaph]
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True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.
