E. W. Howe Quotes
The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
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People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
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I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
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Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.
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Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
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We do not know nearly as much as we should about how children learn language, but if there is one thing we can say with assurance it is that knowledge of grammatical nomenclature and skill in sentence-parsing have no bearing whatsoever on the process.
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Whether the commission recognizes it or not, the first settlement in a complex investigation always sets the tone for what follows. In this case, the bar is set too low.
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Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.
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For the liespotter who knows how to listen well, the random words, sounds, and phrases in a person's speech are never as random as they seem. They offer a clear sightline into the liar's psyche.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
