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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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
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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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So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
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Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.
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God did not create religion. God created man. Man created religion.
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When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.
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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.
