Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!
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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
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Out of these ashes beauty will rise.
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Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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When their lips met, and their tongues touched, it was like they were kissing in a hundred different places, and her senses were flooded with new sensations and old memoires. He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.
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The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the heart's anxious and aching cares are softly smiled away.
