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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Generally speaking, rural drivers are a much better behaved species than city drivers. I'm not sure whether they're intrinsically this way, or there are just fewer opportunities for them to do behave badly. You can't go around running red lights if there aren't any red lights to run.
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To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.
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People are going to write things about you, but you have to take the good with the bad, so you shouldn't take it very seriously. If you take it to heart, it'll get very difficult to deal with. So, just take it with a pinch of salt.
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The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and operating to the highest result--not to create originally, which is great; but to create anew, which is greater.
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I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience; He informed me that knowledge is a light, And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.
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No one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.
