Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.
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Younger customers are the future, but older customers have the money. So you need both: one for the present, and the other for the future.
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Anyone can look beautiful.
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I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility.
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Young girls in particular aren't given a space to be messy and complicated and express themselves and experiment - they're told to be a little quieter and a little less than.
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Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.
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Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves; indeed, more to their own harm, in that they are judged the more severely rather than being liberated.
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I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.
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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.
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I have had a lot of success with failure
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To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.
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Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.
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Creativity is not linear, just like the earth is not flat....If you keep going long enough you will always get back to where you started from. That is when you have lived a full life. That is the artist's path.
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The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.
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A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
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The Bible alone is the only authority that can bind the conscience of a person absolutely because it is the only authority that carries with it the intrinsic authority of God Himself.
