William Henry Maule Quotes
An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.
Quotes to Explore
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.
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It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
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I do tend to think that I've written a great deal out of my unconscious because half the time I don't know what a given character is going to say next.
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I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher.
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How is Maggie Rowe compensating for her decision to not have a child? Is what she is doing instead enough to justify that decision? What is she doing instead, and why can't she be better at it? What's keeping her from getting a better overall existence score in comparison to an arbitrary sampling of other human beings?
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In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
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Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.
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Benefit your friends; make sure your enemies suffer from being your enemies.
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One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances, ... or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.
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Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.
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Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.
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I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.
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Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.
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Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise.
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My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.
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When all else is gone, God is left, and nothing changes Him.
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Sometimes a song just has to cater to whatever's goin' on. A well-written song is a song that stays true to the subject.
