William Faulkner Quotes
Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?
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A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
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A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination.
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We knew we were going to be short-handed, being that Chris wasn't playing, and other guys stepped up and played big for us.
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Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
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All of that is constantly operating when you not only learn, but when you recall. But as you recall in a different light, the weights with which something is more probably going to be or not recalled on the next instance, are going to be changed. So you're constantly changing the way, for instance, synapses are going to fire very easily or not so easily.
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The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.
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The players had bad personal relations, and that's what led to this shameful end. My mistake was not throwing five to six of them off the team. They don't even talk with each other, everyone only looks after his own interest. I've never seen such people before.
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Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.
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To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
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On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.
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When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.
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I believe in the separation of church and state. The government has the right to say what happens in a civil case, like in a court house. And religious people have a right to say what happens in a church congregation. They are two completely separate things.
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After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that attract the media. Although of course we've had a fair number of them, particularly in Africa, since The Bomb was written. But we have had a steady level of attrition of malnutrition and malnutrition-related disease. Probably something on the order of 5 to 10 million people starve to death each year, but they're spread out; they're not dramatic news events.
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No hero is mortal till he dies.
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The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.
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Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?
