William Browne Quotes
The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
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As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.
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It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
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I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself.
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I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.
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When Croft's 'Life of Dr. Young' was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, 'No, no,' said he, 'it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration.'
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I would rather sleep in a bathroom than in another hotel.
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People can talk about my age for as long as they like. There is nothing better in football than proving people wrong, and I'll try to do that for as long as I can.
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Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
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The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.
