Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
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If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
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I believe in the empirical wisdom of science, just to start with, so I hope that there might be some treatment out there that might be helpful.
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No unborn baby has ever had the right to choose or deny its own destruction.
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Say what you would about the dietary requirements, vampirism sure did do great things for the skin and body.
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Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.
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I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to hide the truth.
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He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.
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There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.
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Religion struck me so vague a thing at best, that I could perceive no advantage of any one system over any other.
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The greatest encouragement is conveyed in prayer.
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Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.
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Obviously invidious and prejudicial stereotypes need to be deconstructed and overcome, but it's not that they can be destroyed. I think that would be an illusion to think that we can somehow get rid of these basic search templates that allow us to sort out our social lives and to sort out the material world as well.
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Go to the people
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Nothing could be easier than disturbing a status quo instituted by others; the real work of the sinister
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The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head.
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This problem is not only in Mississippi. During the time I was in the Convention in Atlantic City, I didn't get any threats from Mississippi. The threatening letters were from Philadelphia, Chicago and other big cities.
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If someone is willing to reconsider the results of World War II, let us discuss this. But then we will have to discuss not only Kaliningrad, but also the eastern lands of Germany, the city of Lvov, a former part of Poland, and so on, and so forth. There are also Hungary and Romania on the list.
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And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and level causeway leading to Mexico, we were astounded.
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Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.
