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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I believe in our players, our coaching staff, and our entire franchise.
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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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All my stuff is men's fashion. It's always oversized shirts, boyfriend blazers and trousers.
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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
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I think there's no problem getting through the House a pathway to legal status. A pathway to citizenship is going to be tougher, but I think it is potentially doable, if we can show the American people that the border is secure.
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Big Foster is a guy who was in line to be the head of this clan that's been up in the mountains for 200 years, because his father was the leader or the Bren'in, his mother is now Bren'in, and they're kind of royalty, so he was in line to be next. He'd been promised it from a young age, but it just hasn't happened.
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So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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The object of our prayers should not be to present a wish list or a series of requests but to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that God is eager to bestow, according to His will and timing.
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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.
