Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
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People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.
Jackie Cooper
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Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.
Yoko Ono
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Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.
Fernando Pessoa
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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.
Oliver Sacks
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.
Walter Scott
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The hour that followed was a long hour.
Cormac McCarthy
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Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
Aristotle
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Living in Barcelona, I have my own little ghetto utopia. There are 3,000 ghost towns in Spain, and I've used the images of them a lot in my backdrops for my solo spoken-word stuff. The ghost towns could be from two buildings to 40 - things died out, or there were plagues, the roads don't lead there, whatever.
Lydia Lunch
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We are going to seek to improve the lives of our people on an ongoing basis, and since 1994, we have done precisely that.
Cyril Ramaphosa
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We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.
Gayle King
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Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.
Ellen Burstyn
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The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
David Ogden Stiers
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Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.
Allen West
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This is just rap. I'm not trying to make people think I'm some sort of scientific wizard or inspirational poet.
Action Bronson
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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These similarities would seem to suggest, among other things, that there are spiritual patterns at work in the universe, at least as far as we can tell, and these spiritual patterns announce themselves with impressive regularity wherever human hearts and minds attempt to attune themselves to the cosmos in all its radiant dimensions.
Ken Wilber
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Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
