Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
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The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.
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Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
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Nothing was more likely to aggravate the difficulties of the present situation than any suggestions that our ultimate objective was to unite France, Italy and ourselves against Germany.
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China is a society which forbids any flow of the information and freedom of speech. This is on record, so everybody should know this.
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Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.
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I think... I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
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You go through stuff, and you keep going.
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No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.
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Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.
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There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.
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All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?
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The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church.
