Alexander Pope Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
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You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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I will know him by his eyes.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.
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The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.
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America's history is exemplified in the efforts of the men and women who died for our country. The one thing that they all have in common is their selfless love for our nation and their courage to stand up to protect and defend it. They raised their gaze in the face of conflict, believed in what America could be, and pushed forward.
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The majority of mankind think that they think; they acquiesce, and suppose that they argue; they flatter themselves that they are holding their own, when they have actually grown up to manhood, with scarcely a conviction that they can call their own. So it was, and so it ever shall be.
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All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities
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And binding Nature fast in fate, Left free the human will.
