Ethel Smyth Quotes
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The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
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The real idols . . . are the people who work for Polk Works. I'm honored by this.
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Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
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My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... The wild waters roar and heave... The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be... Viola.
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I definitely want to do worldwide, ... but hopefully with a better sound system.
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I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.
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You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!
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These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.
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Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
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“Remember to Breathe!”
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Hope has power only when married to personal action.
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We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.
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For the soul of a person to be inflamed with passion for the living God, that person's mind must first be informed about the character and will of God. There can be nothing in the heart that is not first in the mind. Though it is possible to have theology on the head without its piercing the soul, it cannot pierce the soul without first being grasped by the mind.
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I got a letter from this lady of Russian and Jewish descent. She asked me if I was a racist because I didn't do any White people. I was shocked, because my mandate is to do Black studies. It would have never occurred to me if this lady hadn't written this letter. We decided we were going expand the brand and do everybody.
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
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No one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.
