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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We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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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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I like musicals.
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It seems to me that we become more dear one to the other, in together admiring works of art, which speak to the soul by their true grandeur.
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The true sweetness of wine is one flavor.
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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?
