Charles Dickens Quotes
It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
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I had an idea when I was 18 or 19 to start tutoring people, like the way that people get tutored in saxophone or guitar, but for production. I really enjoyed it, but I don't have time for that any more.
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Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
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Rise! ye gallant youth of Britain,Gather to your country's call,On your hearts her name is written,Rise to help her, one and all!
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It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.
