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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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 think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.
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Sometimes you come to a fall and sometimes you come to white water. Your rowing has to adapt to the situation. You can't do the same stroke coming down a small stream as you would coming down Niagara Falls. Even if you're only rowing down a stream, different things happen: maybe the wind changes, maybe the current, and suddenly everything's different. So gently is really important. Don't power yourself or blast through; rock with the way things are.
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The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.
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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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This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.
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No two men living at the same time live in the same time.
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Of happy men that have the power to die, And grassy barrows of the happier dead.
