Ernest Wood Quotes
Harmony is the inlet of God into the mind, so that the mind acts in obedience to a law above mind - and that law is unity.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.
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Political development should start at the grassroots.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
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The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
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The government will always tell you that it wants low inflation. The real issue is the horizon over which to bring inflation down.
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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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We all walk softly away.We would stay and be the nurse butthere are too many of us and we are too worried to help.It is love that walks awayand yet we have terrible mouthsand soft milk hands.We worry with like.We walk away like love.
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They pronounce absurdly who thus speak, as the Pythagoreans assert: for at the same time they make the infinite to be essence, and distribute it into parts.
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I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.
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The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
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Get a grip on yourself. there's only one god here on earth, and that's you. If you don't like the world, make one you like better.
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Harmony is the inlet of God into the mind, so that the mind acts in obedience to a law above mind - and that law is unity.
