Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
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Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.
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How we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology is a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into.
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I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.
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At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
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I like to walk into a house and go, 'Rip up the brown shag carpet and open up that wall with some French doors.'
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We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending.
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The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
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I don’t see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal? They enjoy it and the young ladies enjoy it too. I suppose that's one of the main reasons women come to football games, to see the young men take their shirts off. Of course they’d have to go and watch another game because my lads are as ugly as sin.
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Trade votes in the US Congress are never really easy things.
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I take every possible side.
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Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.
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As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.
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Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.
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Life is going forth; death is returning home.
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There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.
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I preserve things that are significant to me. Only time will determine what is important in the long term. But something can be rediscovered only if someone has collected and preserved it.
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Life is a crucible. We are thrown into it and tried.
