Edmund Spenser Quotes
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I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.
Karen Carpenter
The Carpenters
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Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.
Nadine Gordimer
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Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing.
Parker Palmer
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To be good, and to do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
Abigail Adams
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'Dignity is like morality,' Mirabilis barked. 'Too much is as bad as too little.'
M. K. Hobson
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May it the opposition to fine writing be accounted for by the fact that the spirit of Puritanism, having been banished from the province of moral conduct, has found a refuge among the arts?
Logan Pearsall Smith
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Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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I think one of the things about being a good coach is to recognise when you have given all that you can. In fact there should be some sort of unspoken law that says that a coach cannot have anyone for three or four years - if you have not passed on most of the stuff you know in that time, then you are not doing a good job.
Daley Thompson
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'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.
David R. Brower
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.
Rebecca Solnit
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Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.
Edmund Spenser
