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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Scientists do not simply read nature to find truths to apply in the social world. Instead, they use truths taken from our social relationships to structure, read, and interpret the natural.
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There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.
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I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness.
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She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be married with five kids now.
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The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.
