Ellet J. Waggoner Quotes
“When we consider the works of creation, and think of the power manifested in them, we are contemplating the power of redemption.”
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
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There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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I decided to make a lifetime commitment against social injustices, against inequalities, and that is why I am profoundly from the Left.
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My confidence can come back very quickly.
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I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
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My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?
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Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. (Hays translation)
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Everyone said he was a fool. Everyone said she was a clever woman. They used the word ensnare.
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I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.
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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
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I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.
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Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
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“When we consider the works of creation, and think of the power manifested in them, we are contemplating the power of redemption.”
