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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If my life has had a theme, I suppose it has been a typical American theme in that, for most of it, I have been looking for happiness and 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 see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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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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Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.
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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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The more I learned about the history of religion, the more my earlier misgivings appeared justified. The doctrines that I had accepted without question as a child were indeed man-made, constructed over a long period. Science seemed to have disposed of the Creator God, and biblical scholars had proved that Jesus had never claimed to be divine.
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I did this play, 'Expedition 6,' that I worked on for three years in between other things. It was a good, interesting time for me because I trained as a theater director, and I went back, and we toured it around.
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Young people are just as attracted to the truth as they are convenience and expediency.
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I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.
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A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.
