Edmund Gosse Quotes
It encourages a stern and ignorant spirit of condemnation; it throws altogether out of gear the healthy movement of the conscience; it invents virtues which are sterile and cruel; it invents sins which are no sins at all, but which darken the heaven of innocent joy with futile clouds of remorse.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day.
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I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
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I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.
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E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.
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My size is a huge part of me. You just have to appreciate those kinds of things. So I wasn't born with long legs - who cares. You just have to embrace it. Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
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As Christopher Marlowe’s Faust learned the hard way, wishing for a moment of bliss to say 'the same' indefinitely is guaranteed to procure indefinite commitment to hell instead of indefinite happiness. … A state of rest would not be a state of happiness but of boredom.
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If children have interests then education happens.
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No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
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Singing is the thing apart from my family that gives me the most joy in the world. I don't ever spend a day without singing.
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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
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This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
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I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.
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It encourages a stern and ignorant spirit of condemnation; it throws altogether out of gear the healthy movement of the conscience; it invents virtues which are sterile and cruel; it invents sins which are no sins at all, but which darken the heaven of innocent joy with futile clouds of remorse.
