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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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 always begin to compose the melody first.
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Can you love someone you don't trust?" "Absolutely," he said. "I have a sister I wouldn't lend two copper lengths if I wanted them back. The problem with loving someone you don't trust is finding the right distance.
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Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property.
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There is little that separates humans from other sentient beings - we all feel joy, we all deeply crave to be alive and to live freely, and we all share this planet together.
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I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?
