Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.
Foxy Brown
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
Laura Harrier
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A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty - their power and privilege - to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians
P. J. O'Rourke
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Most mothers want more of dad in their children’s lives, not less.
Warren Farrell
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You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
Alan Coren
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Demosthenes: Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvellous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
Aristophanes
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This is random, but I thought I was going to have the biggest Backstreet Boys fansite. I'm not even gonna lie: I thought I was gonna marry one of the Backstreet Boys, and I was gonna be his Yoko Ono.
Karen Civil
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Opportunities present themselves every day - to everyone. You just have to be alert and ready to act.
Marc Ostrofsky
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The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.
Bob Newhart
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I am very down to earth and practical.
Ashley Olsen
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If any mayor reduced school funding by 33 percent and called it the 'Strengthening Our Schools Initiative,' I think they'd be excoriated.
Martin O'Malley
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Having 'The Ultimate Fighter' was the thing that did it for us, live fighting on TV. That's what we had to do, was get a live fight on TV. It couldn't have worked out better.
Chuck Liddell
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I have known in my heart since I was a little girl that music was a major part of my life and always would be, but seeing others respond to the words I sing amazes me.
Lauren Daigle
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I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this formidable thing. People say juries can be led - I think 12 people from different backgrounds, different races, different genders, different ages, it's hard to hoodwink.
Peter Morgan
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For me, getting older doesnt mean throwing away a favourite-coloured lipstick or a fabulous pair of boots; instead, its about harnessing all the great things I have learnt over the years about what does and doesnt suit me, and enjoying the way in which cleverly selected outfits can enhance the nice bits.
Lesley Lawson
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I don't want my husband to push me around in a wheelchair. I don't want someone to lead me around because I'm blind.
Delloreese Patricia Early
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You lose only the things you have.
Epictetus
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Frewen and his colleague Ruth Lanius found that the more people were out of touch with their feelings, the less activity they had in the self-sensing areas of the brain. Because traumatized people often have trouble sensing what is going on in their bodies, they lack a nuanced response to frustration. They either react to stress by becoming “spaced out” or with excessive anger. Whatever their response, they often can’t tell what is upsetting them. This failure to be in touch with their bodies contributes to their well-documented lack of self-protection and high rates of revictimization and also to their remarkable difficulties feeling pleasure, sensuality, and having a sense of meaning.
Bessel van der Kolk
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And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
William Butler Yeats
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By complex ways, by looking deep into the dark well of the human soul, full of filth, somewhere at the very bottom of it Chekhov at last found his faith. And this faith turned out to be faith in man, in the power of human progress. And man became his god.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
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She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.
William Congreve
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Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
