Edgar Fawcett Quotes
We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.
Quotes to Explore
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It's astounding the degree to which these communities are intermarried. Iraq is a crazy quilt of ethnicities and religious sects.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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If the United States is treating Afghanistan as a sovereign country it has to prove it.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.
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I would have loved to have a role in the HBO series 'Deadwood.' It was Shakespeare in the Old West.
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We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.
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It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.
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Behavior is the theory of manners practically applied.
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Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. Sometimes you run over a drunk who's lain down and fallen asleep on the warm pavement. I mean, do you keep going, or what?
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Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
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My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
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The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
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It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.
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Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?
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When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for our use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will look upon with praise and thanksgiving in their hearts.
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A mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.
