George Fordyce Quotes
Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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And for a very special group of people, we've provided their only job. I'm speaking of course of the disabled. They have stated they don't want a hand out just a hand. We are happy to give them one.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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I just have work to do; I just do it.
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Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.
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My mother is happy with whatever I choose to do in life as long as I'm happy, healthy, and safe.
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I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.
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With the way that the times are, we're all looking for a little fantasy... Fantasy is such an important part of my fashion...
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The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
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Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.
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The problem is that you can't impose the church's teachings on all Americans as a matter of law.
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A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.
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My family responsibilities don't conflict with my career. Not at all.
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When, as a child, I first opened my eyes on a Sunday-morning, a feeling of dismal anicipation, which began at least on the Friday,culminated. I knew what was before me, and my wish, if not my word, was "Would God it were evening!" It was no day of rest, but a day of texts, of catechisms Watts, of tracts about converted swearers, godly charwomen, and edifying deaths of sinners saved.... There was but one rosy spot, in the distance, all that day: and that was "bed-time," which never could come too early!
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But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.
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There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican.
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Look after the root of the tree, and the fragrant flower and luscious fruits will grow by themselves. Look after the health of the body, and the fragrance of the mind and richness of the spirit will follow.
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You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
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Who can describe the transports of a beam truly parental on beholding a daughter shoot up like some fair and modest flower, and acquire, day after day, fresh beauty and growing sweetness, so as to fill every eye with pleasure and every heart with admiration?
