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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I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.
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It keeps agitating and worrying us there, ... They're trying to get it to calm down.
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I just got more aggressive. I didn't have the ball in my hands that much in the first half because I was playing the 2-guard. When they took John out of the game in the second half, I handled the ball more and I was able to make things happen for myself and my teammates.
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In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.
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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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There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
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Then, aware once more of her obligation, she asked politely: “You only wrriter, or your work also?” “I hope to teach English one day.”
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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can't find at home, which usually involves bringing their religion with them. One's children are going to be married to people outside their religious traditions as well as inside.
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The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.
