Edwin A. Abbott Quotes
Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.
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To me, pictures are like blintzes - ya gotta get 'em while they're hot.
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There has to be a consensus and this is a report, a set of circumstances, that the international community simply cannot ignore.
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Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism... Resist growing up!
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Most of them, they serve the interests of the United States but are not building any kind of permanent structure for the country they are affecting.
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I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.
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Passion is born of vague hopes.
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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
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I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results.
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How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?
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My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.
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The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.
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I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.
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There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore.
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Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon, and by which we are as much liable to be foiled as by the greatest ability or courage.
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An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.
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We laughed again. We couldn’t stop. I wondered what it was we were laughing about. Was it just our names? Were we laughing because we were relieved? Were we happy? Laughter was another one of life’s mysteries.
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Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.
