Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one.
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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A major impediment to economic advancement around the world is the fact that the vast majority of humans are unbanked.
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
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I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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Our World War II generation met the challenges of their time.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
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We live in a world where it's difficult to be a woman who is strong and confident, so I like to surround myself with friends that embody that same principle and idea.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.
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Honestly, I had a kid, so you watch the movies your kids want to watch. I'm also a producer, so when I watch movies, I look at them from the genre they are, the budget they had, and the time they had to produce it. That's how I evaluate their success.
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As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child.
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One man, one vote: A legal doctrine requiring that, from time to time, old gerrymanders be replaced with new ones. The object of this is the achievement of genuine democracy.
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Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that all her dreams are sweet? Said now, would ya guide her on the roads, and make them softer for her feet? Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that she's gonna be alright, until she's home and here with me.
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The perfect world, by Adam trod, Was the first temple--built by God-- His fiat laid the corner stone, And heaved its pillars, one by one.
