Anthony Trollope Quotes
The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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I really believe that all CEO pay should be voted on by shareholders ahead of time. Mine was.
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I'm probably more comfortable inside a Marine Corps rifle company than I am anywhere in my life.
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I love being on the road, I love playing.
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We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.
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He is better known for what he has promised to the sciences than for what he as actually done for them.
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New and emerging infections keep coming back and the world needs a collective defense system, and that requires international cooperation and collaboration, in the name of global solidarity.
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It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.
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One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.
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Commentating, illustrating, description giving, adjective expert, analyzing, surmising musical myth seeking people of the universe, this is yours.
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When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.
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Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.
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Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic.
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The whole end of speech is to be understood.
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Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
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My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.
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I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown.
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Good design should be honest.
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I started dieting. I dieted, dieted, dieted and tried all the diets and I would lose and then I would go back to normal eating and would put it on and then some.
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The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
