Edward Young Quotes
The chamber where the good man meets his fateIs privileg’d beyond the common walkOf virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.
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The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
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Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.
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I have no problem with being vetted. What I do have a problem with is being lied about and then putting that as truth.
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A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.
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The chamber where the good man meets his fateIs privileg’d beyond the common walkOf virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven.
