Alexander Pope Quotes
So unaffected, so compos'd a mind; So firm, yet soft; so strong, yet so retin'd; Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures try'd; The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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'The Passing Bells' highlights the horror of the fighting from both sides and draws parallels between these two young boys' lives.
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The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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If I'm so popular, why did they replace me with Tommy Thayer?
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.
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Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
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An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
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You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.
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We have to see what is the response that the Iranians give us.
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So unaffected, so compos'd a mind; So firm, yet soft; so strong, yet so retin'd; Heav'n, as its purest gold, by tortures try'd; The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died.
