Edith Durham Quotes
They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."
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Craft is everything.
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In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
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Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
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A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; or, he can rise above it and never forget it and keep compassion and understanding in his heart for those he has left behind him in the cruel upclimb.
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I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.
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Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking.
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The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
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The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good.
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Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.
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I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
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When Chrissie Hynde was inducted into the Hall of Fame, I, of course, was there to see that because I have to back up the girl. When it was over, I said we needed to have a party for Chrissie in my hotel suite. I didn't really know her, but it was great.
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..And the same rapper who revels in a woman's finely proportioned behind may also speak against racism and on behalf of the poor, even as he encourages them not to look at hip-hop as their salvation.
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The third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of . . . the sacred and inviolable rights of private property.
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I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.
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In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.
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They are strewn with the wreckage of dead Empires - past Powers - only the Albanian "goes on for ever."
