Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
Quotes to Explore
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.
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There are no second acts in American lives.
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Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
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New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.
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When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.
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Something happens between a novel and its reader which is similar to the process of developing photographs, the way they did it before the digital age. The photograph, as it was printed in the darkroom, became visible bit by bit. As you read your way through a novel, the same chemical process takes place.
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Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure.
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The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
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I read my eyes out and can't read half enough. … The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
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It is better to have a retarded president who respects human values than a clever government without human values.
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
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We were the first country to attempt and to succeed in rolling back the frontiers of socialism, which is the first cousin to communism.
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Improving our nation's education system has long been the cornerstone of my policy agenda.
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For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.
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I don't want people to think you have to look a certain way or be a certain mold to be able to be a quarterback.
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
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At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.
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We know what the writing on the wall is, ... We need to make sure we continue to pay down the debt. That's been one of our objectives all the way along the line. So it's not a retreat at all.
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Civilization is the encouragement of differences.
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Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
