George Pope Morris Quotes
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
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Obviously I try to make the best music that I can, but after about two years of making an album, you start to worry: 'Is it going to come out all right? Is it all going to sound churned out?'
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I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.
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India seeks to be a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council... things like this don't happen automatically, you need constant dialogue and discussion with the world.
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I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
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I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
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I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.
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Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck.
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I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.
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But the net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.
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In mirth that after no repenting draws.
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A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.
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They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do.They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.
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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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Sometimes parents squash students' interests because they are afraid of science or math. So they don't participate. You don't have to know the answers to engage kids; you just have to let them know it's important.
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I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually - the way I see it - your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.
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A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.
