Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
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The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
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Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.
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I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.
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Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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I actually hope people don't react to 'Impossible' in a way where they think it's terribly retro. The plot needed to do what it needed to do. But I'm a little surprised to find myself looking a little bit like an advocate of teen marriage. It takes some exceptional circumstances for that to be a reasonable idea.
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Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.
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The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.
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Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
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I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.
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I actually prefer film to TV, but I don't know why. I think there's just a different energy.
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The future of reading is screens. Books are toast.
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I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.
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For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.
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To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.
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What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
