Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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Double J is similar in age, we're similar in experience. I think if we hooked up, we could be a formidable team. We get along well inside the ring and outside the ring.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it.
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I have matured a lot.
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A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
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And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.
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I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.
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Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.
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Th' adorning thee with so much artIs but a barb'rous skill;'T is like the pois'ning of a dart,Too apt before to kill.
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Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.
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I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.
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Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
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The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.
