Alfred de Musset Quotes
What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.
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The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
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I think something very weird's going on now, 'cause the power that is permitted to youth is quite extraordinary. And they are sort of run by that kind of power.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
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Waitressing - by far the worst job ever created.
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What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.
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I don't have to think. My only job is to show up and win.
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Vision with action can change the world.
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Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we're going to space, baby.
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Absolutely the most fun thing to do in space and rewarding thing, in many ways, is to look back at planet Earth.
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What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.
