Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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All of his saves have come in relief appearances.
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The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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The fact that there is a unity in everything demonstrates that they are the works and artefacts of a single being. The universe is like a rosebud swathed in a thousand veils of unity. Or it is a single macroanthropos dressed in unities to the number of Divine Names and universal Divine works.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.
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My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.
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What the event will be like, being part of the Olympics and being in London, is too much to think about. You've no control over those things, so in a way, it's wasted energy to think of them.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.
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If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.
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Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke of a pen or the point of a bayonet.
