William Gurney Benham Quotes
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
Euripides
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Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.
William James
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Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.
William Shakespeare
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At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!
Alexander the Great
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Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve. Comfort yourself. You would not seek me if you had not found me.
Blaise Pascal
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Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.
Willem de Kooning
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Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again. As we drove away, I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on.
Sarah Dessen
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I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a whisky, making a fool of myself, getting aggressive, maudlin and drunkenly out of control. I have never found those states in others anything other than tiring, awkward, embarrassing and fantastically dull, but I am quite sure that people would cherish a view of me in that condition at least once in a while.
Stephen Fry
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Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.
Albert Einstein
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You will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Christian did a great job of changing speeds. After that first inning, he kept us off balance mixing the fastball and he spotted his off-speed pitches so well, we were behind in the count.
B. R. Hayden
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The sin is not in the sinning, but in the being found out.
William Gurney Benham
