Edwin Muir Quotes
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As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
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I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.
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I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.
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My parents did everything possible. My dad has worked from eight in the morning until nine in the evening to make it possible so I can play tennis. We had to cancel tournaments because we couldn't afford to go there.
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Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
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For me, I always like to get up bright and early.
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The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.
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His desire to focus on specific core funds has given me the opportunity to redistribute assets to managers whose talents warrant larger assignments.
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Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move.
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Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.
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The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
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The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
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The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.
