Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
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To be put simply refugees are us. And their mothers are like us, they love their children the same, they laugh, they dream, and they are survivors, they are amazing.
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But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
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Wanting is not enough, long and you attain it.
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If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.
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You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Why, it has often occurred to me to ask myself, do I so frequently choose death, transience, and the grave as subjects for my paintings? One must submit oneself many times to death in order some day to attain life everlasting.
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To want is more than to attain.
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No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantages to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the next few decades.
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When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
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What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.
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The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
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I never felt that I was typecast, but I was concerned about it. I certainly made an effort to take as many parts in theater and film that resisted that. If you only learn how to act a certain kind of role, it is very difficult to grow as an actor.
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The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
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In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
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I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
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Grace and truth are spiritual DNA, the building blocks of Christ-centered living.
