Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
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When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
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We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
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I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.
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It keeps agitating and worrying us there, ... They're trying to get it to calm down.
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One of the most important rules of personal effectiveness is the 10/90 rule.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.
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You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more!
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I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.
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We're trying to take a leadership role in solving the nation's health-care crisis. We want everybody in this country to have health insurance.
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We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle.
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Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.
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The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.
