Elias Lyman Magoon Quotes
An unsanctified temper is a fruitful source of error, and a mighty impediment to truth.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
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You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
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I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
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He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
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Because I cannot hope to turn again Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something Upon which to rejoice
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Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.
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I constantly look like a miserable bitch.
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I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you.I know that it is late,But thank you for talking, because I needed to.Some things just can't wait.
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Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.
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When I die? Fuck it, I wanna go to hell, 'cause I'm a piece of shit. It ain't hard to fuckin' tell.
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Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
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Our decentralized, localized leadership structure has really allowed for Black Lives Matter structures in their own communities to take on the state and take on some of the most egregious acts against black people.
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Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.
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We have beastly qualities within us. If we're put into certain circumstances, and the walls around us come in tighter and tighter, we all could maybe do dangerous things.
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United States: .... A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.
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Painting is getting in touch with the truth. It's a matter of summoning up the vision I need.
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For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.
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There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve.
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An unsanctified temper is a fruitful source of error, and a mighty impediment to truth.