George Holyoake Quotes
There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.
Quotes to Explore
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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I just felt like I had to create a life for myself where I was more independent.
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I don't like controversy.
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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I've quite often written tweets that I think are across that line, but I just delete them.
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I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to piss in. I'm from Newark, New Jersey. I had to work. I didn't think it would be possible for me to be an artist without having a job.
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Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
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He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
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Here lies, on the small farthest beach,the Captain of the End.
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She can’t help her red skin, and she isn’t heathen. In fact, she’s a Baptist, which is almost like being Christian, only louder.
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He might take habit, whether from wave or phrase,Or power of the wave, or deepened speech, Or a leaner being, moving in on him, Of greater aptitude and apprehension,As if the waves at last were never broken, As if the language suddenly, with ease, Said things it had laboriously spoken.
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You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
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Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
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I should let people in. If they leave, they leave. If I break, I break. It happens to everyone. Right?
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It's like creating an artificial loop saying, 'You didn't play the game the way I wanted you to play, so now you're punished and you're going to come back and play it again until you do what I want you to do.' In an action game, I can get that – why not? It's all about skills. But in a story-driven experience it doesn't make any sense.
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There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.
