Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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Lick the alphabet. It makes you appear creative, it's an easy diagram to remember, it's like 'aaaaa.... beeeee.... ceeee.' She's thinking you're from fuckin' Europe or somethin: 'OH GOD, WHERE'D YOU LEARN THAT, OHHH,' and you're going 'A, B, C, D, E, F, G'.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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My nerves fell apart before I saw the front this time, the decaying corpses and piercing wire; for a while, they made me harmless, locking me up in order to undertake a special diagnosis of whatever military ability I might still have. The nerves, every last fiber, repugnance, repulsion!
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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The proletariat must seize state power in order to destroy the existing bourgeois state apparatus and, in a first phase, replace it with a quite different, proletarian, state apparatus, then in later phases set in motion a radical process, that of the destruction of the state.
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We must reject dictatorship in whatever form it takes — and especially when it rears its head in our own midst on the bench.
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The RSC changed my career, and 'Coronation Street' changed my life.
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What we know is Megyn Kelly is totally obsessed with Mr. Trump.
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In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's assistant for a couple of summers.
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I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight.
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If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.
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While they are growing up, the young need adults who can suggest principles and values to them. They feel in need of people who can teach by their example, more than by their words, to expend themselves for high ideals.
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'The man's become inhuman, I tell you,' said Kemp. 'I am as sure he will establish a reign of terror-so soon as he has got over the emotions of this escape-as I am sure I am talking to you. Our only chance is to be ahead. He has cut himself off from his kind. His blood be upon his own head.'
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I am no longer in pictures for money. I am in them because I love them. I am not in vain. I do not care about giving a smashing personal performance. My one ambition is to create fine entertainment.
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I feel like in every song I write, I always write a little darker bit.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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Singing has opened so many doors for me. And that's definitely a true passion of mine. It's a natural, God-given gift.
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'And this,' said Cæsar, 'you know, young man, is more disagreeable for me to say than to do.'
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Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions
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Seeking Heaven through righteousness is not seeking righteousness, but something else;--it is not loving goodness for goodness' sake, but for its rewards.
