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.
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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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If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
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Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours - to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world.
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When I was 17, I got a call from Konnan. He told me that he was about to start up a new promotion called AAA. A lot of the popular wrestlers were going to come to work for him, and he wanted me to be one of them.
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The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.
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You should know," said Estella. "I am what you have made me. Take all the praise, take all the blame; take all the success, take all the failure; in short, take me.
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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.
