Letitia Elizabeth Landon Quotes
THE present! it is but a drop from the seaIn the mighty depths of eternity.I love it not-it taketh its birthToo near to the dull and the common earth.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
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You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
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The devil made me do it.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-Thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.
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His conversation does not show the minute-hand, but he strikes the hour very correctly.
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It's a joy, the process itself, even instrumentally, playing and constructing music. It's just so beautiful to me.
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Conserving fuel is fine, and it was great in the past. The problem is that the drivers don't have to do it. It's all done electronically. You sit there, and it saves fuel for you, and that defeats the purpose.
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Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me.
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THE present! it is but a drop from the seaIn the mighty depths of eternity.I love it not-it taketh its birthToo near to the dull and the common earth.
