E. W. Howe Quotes
So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.
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I want more images onscreen because when I was growing up, I think, like, that one kiss in 'The Color Purple' was the one thing that I had. Or 'The Watermelon Woman.'
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If you have enough strength to help yourself, you have enough strength to help those in need. Never pass up an opportunity.
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Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.
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In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
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So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.
