William H. Prescott Quotes
The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again.
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I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I think it affects the actors, and I think it affects the crew. There's that sensation like you're really shooting it for real, like in a documentary.
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I know what poverty is.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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One problem I have with drug companies is that they don't make all their data public.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour.
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The person in New York City is showing too little empathy for the Trump voter. The Trump voter is showing too little empathy for the person who's very worried about the refugee ban. They're not spending enough time with each other to have a meaningful conversation.
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Like a steely blade in a silken sheathWe don't see what they're made ofThey shout about love, but when push comes to shoveThey live for the things they're afraid ofAnd the knowledge that they fear is a weapon to be used against them...- The Weapon (Part II of 'Fear') (1982)
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I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we'd initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.
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From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.
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Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.
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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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It seems like whenever a big newspaper or TV show talks about teen literature, they focus on dark books or vampire books. It's kind of this cliche. It seems like the only time adults pay attention is with that angle.
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The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
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The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.
