Washington Gladden Quotes

When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it.

Washington Gladden

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• Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

  

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• So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.

  

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• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

  

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• The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason.

  

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• As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

  

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• It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

  

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• The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.

  

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• Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

  

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• Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

  

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• Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

  

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• I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.

  

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• The Italians must allow us to slaughter the Momands, because, if we do not kill the warlike hillmen, they will kill us. And we must allow the Italians to slaughter the Danakils for the same reason.

  

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• Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder.

  

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• The number of people who said that it made a difference to them that I'm out is the reason that I'm out. There are people who devote their lives to taking away the rights of gays and lesbians, and I think that visibility is very important. I'm trying to encourage more people to come out, and show everyone who they are, because it's harder to take away the rights of a human being. And this is a miracle state, because we can get married. And I think that these people working to take away our rights are going to lose, because of this generation.

  

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• I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

  

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• Jealous?" "Maybe." "No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.

  

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• At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude - a universal cry of execration, not greatly dissimilar from that which may be frequently heard in the crowded Temple of Impartiality when the one whose duty it is to take up, at a venture, the folded papers, announces that the sublime Emperor, or some mandarin of exalted rank, has been so fortunate as to hold the winning number in the Annual State Lottery.

  

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• I'm proud, and Islam did it. And after these things that I heard in church, a preacher and watching this and that, I knew something was wrong but I couldn't pinpoint it.

  

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• The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.

  

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• When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it.

  

  Washington Gladden
  • Reason
  • Duty
  • Fortunate