Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise.
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Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
Patricia Schroeder
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Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
Karen Mills
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
Jack O'Brien
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
Barbara De Angelis
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There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
Calvin Harris
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Yotam Ottolenghi
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
Paloma Faith
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
Cara Delevingne
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
Waka Flocka Flame
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
Abby Wambach
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As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!
Victoria Osteen
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To think of shadows is a serious thing.
Victor Hugo
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People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.
Karl Lagerfeld
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If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
Octavia E. Butler
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Nothing important is completely explicable.
Madeleine L'Engle
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A treeCannot growIn its parents’ shadows.
Octavia E. Butler
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Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When pride thaws, look for floods.
Philip James Bailey
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
Samantha Power
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise.
Edwin Percy Whipple