William Edward Hartpole Lecky Quotes
Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.
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That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
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There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
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Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.
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As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.
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I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.
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He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.
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Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.
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I don't think I've made my favorite film yet. But I loved 'Bamboozled.' 'Bamboozled' to me is off the chain. It's definitely in the ranking. I loved 'Bamboozled.'
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Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.
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Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression and to ensure that it is not obstructed.
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And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.
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I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.
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Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
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Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.
