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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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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Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it.
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The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they've got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
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When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.
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In my view, the money is poorly spent and given willy-nilly to people unlikely to get on the winning rostrum.
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One of the greatest gifts we have is our own mistakes and somebody singing about them.
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Well, maybe I'm not so emotionally dysfunctional after all.
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Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.
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Capital is kind of a banking concept.
