Alexander Pope Quotes

Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.

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• Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

  

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• I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

  

  Karan Johar
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• The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

  

  Barbara Amiel
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• I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.

  

  Taylor Kinney
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• I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.

  

  Felicity Kendal
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• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• Women are not all single-issue voters.

  

  Carly Fiorina
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• In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
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• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
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• The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
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• I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.

  

  Halsey
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• The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.

  

  Safra A. Catz
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• I'm kind of an antsy person.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.

  

  Carlene Carter
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• My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

  

  C. L. R. James
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• I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.

  

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• After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

  

  Nancy Grace
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• Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

  

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• The good news is the Republicans have started to say the right things about net neutrality. The bad news is we're not particularly close on what a bill would look like.

  

  Brian Schatz
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• Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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• Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.

  

  Dale Dauten
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• God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray.

  

  Martin Luther
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• Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge Thy foe.

  

  Alexander Pope
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  • Judge