William George Jordan Quotes
No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I loved Riot Grrl. Not only was it a punk rock revolution, but it meant you could get dressed for a night out for less than two pounds!
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There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the execution, and finally there is the release.
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O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision.
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Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).
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The air in a man's lungs 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms, so that sooner or later every one of us breathes an atom that has been breathed before by anyone you can think of who has ever lived - Michelangelo or George Washington or Moses.
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I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.
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We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.
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My greatest work comes in the community.
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Governments don't want to be the last ones in the digital sphere if their people and businesses are already there. We have to make clear that the free movement of services in the E.U. also applies in the digital sphere. The shortcut is to create a digital union.
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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They're playin our song Gene!
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Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.
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One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
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Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett)
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Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.
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I never know what to tell young people when they come here. It could never happen for anyone they way it happened for me. It was all an accident.
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
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No good act performed in the world ever dies. Science tells us that no atom of matter can ever be destroyed, that no force once started ever ends; it merely passes through a multiplicity of ever-changing phases. Every good deed done to others is a great force that starts an unending pulsation through time and eternity. We may not know it, we may never hear a word of gratitude or recognition, but it will all come back to us in some form as naturally, as perfectly, as inevitably, . . . as echo answers to sound.
