Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.
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So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
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We don’t forgive being as we are.
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Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't.
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I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn't be more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.
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Christ means Krishna, love of Godhead, Who has His face annointed with tilak.
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Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.
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You're trying to make someone wet their pants and you're trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That's the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?
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I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.
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The world's gotten smaller by virtue of the Internet and new media.
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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
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The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.
