Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.
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I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.
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If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
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Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
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Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a writer (a bestseller at that!) who only writes on weekends.
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No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.
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The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. That is to say, it will not be the equality of social conditions but rather their inequality which may give rise thereto.
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In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity.
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The mystical pregnancy is one of the tropes that I loathe the most because while other tropes represent women in stereotypical ways, this one hits us on a biological level.
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'Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.'
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It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
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Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM.
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I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers in the future. But conveying that knowledge now is rather like a chimpanzee, becoming a human for a single day to experience all of the wonders of human knowledge, and then returning to one's chimp friends and trying to tell them what it was like knowing several different Romance languages, the calculus, and the immense scale of the universe.
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Back in the day they stole our smile, so we clothe our teeth in gold.
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The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
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A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.
