Norman Nicholson Quotes
Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation; and they don't take the hint when you want them to go. Weeds are nobody's guests: More like squatters.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.
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The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.
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When a scientist says he believes the Bible--that doesnt give me anymore more faith in the Bible that gives me more faith in the scientist.
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When I hear Rand Paul, who is much younger, saying wars are verkakte, I agree with him.
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Enlightenment is the only real antidote to the world's despair.
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Or they'll put posters up saying pizza is the biggest source of tomato sauce in the American diet.
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I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.
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Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.
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See it as it is, not worse than it is just so you have a reason not to try.
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A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.
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A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
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I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong.
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All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
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Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation; and they don't take the hint when you want them to go. Weeds are nobody's guests: More like squatters.
