William Greenough Thayer Shedd Quotes
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To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.
Abraham Lincoln
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
Abraham Lincoln
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
Eartha Kitt
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If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book for Lloyd Axworthy. I've worked in coffee shops. I've sold clothes. I've hosted TV shows, and now I'm acting.
Hannah Simone
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Irving Langmuir
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
Vicki Lawrence
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I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.
Adam Beach
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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.
Eckhart Tolle
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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
Taylor Momsen
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
Nathan Fillion
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There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
Adam Lambert
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I love being super-tough, but if I need to put on a dress and do my hair and makeup, I can do that, too.
Elizabeth Rodriguez
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The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it, and it is well-integrated into an overall scheme for a group of small museums.
Martin Filler
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This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.
Marvin Minsky
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Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels
Thomas Edward Yorke
Atoms for Peace
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It's been said that I formed The Wallflowers to hide my name but, really, I've always wanted to be in a band - right from the day my friends and I soundproofed a garage with bed-covers for our first rehearsal.
Jakob Dylan
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Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them.
William Greenough Thayer Shedd