Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.
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Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
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One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.
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Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.
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Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
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Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best - most responsibly and responsively - when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.
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Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
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I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.
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I just like the idea of this creature or a being on the roof, you know? It's kind of spooky.
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Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!
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It's not just what you say that stirs people. It's the way that you say it.
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Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.
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All the songwriters that I worked with said they'd like to work with me again. Such things serve as much inspiration for me. I regard myself a melody maker so it made me happy to be recognized for my work.
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Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.
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In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
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When the mountain streams are frozen and the Nor'land winds are out; when the winter winds are drifting the bitter sleet and snow; when winter rains are making out-of-door life unendurable; when season, weather and law combine to make it "close time" for beast, bird and man, it is well that a few congenial spirits should, at some favorite trysting place, gather around the glowing stove and exchange yarns, opinions and experiences.
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I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.
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Simply bringing awareness to the process of breathing initiates the release of peptide molecules from the hindbrain to regulate breathing while unifying all systems.
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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
