Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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When I was in my 20s and 30s, there was such a variety and diversity of types of films that you could see. So many of them were really more about the human condition and about relationships between people, and they were smaller films that had a much greater impact on me as a human being.
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Elements within Malcolm's X own entourage, some of them were very angry with some of the changes that had occurred with Malcolm. One source of anger, curiously enough, was that - was the tension between MMI and OAAU, that the MMI, the Muslim Mosque Incorporated, these were women and men who had left the Nation of Islam out of loyalty to Malcolm, but then Malcolm continued to evolve rapidly.
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If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you have already received, instead of requests for what you do not have, you will obtain results a great deal faster.
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Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.
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He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
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The purpose of criminal law is to punish the enemies of those in power.
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More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.
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You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.
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I sort of don't remember anything I did in the '70s.
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He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.
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I do have some very strange thoughts - still, all geniuses are mad aren't they?
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Moreover, it is difficult to reconcile Hobbes’s distrust for the individual with his confidence in the altruistic nature of the individual or individuals who will oversee and control the Leviathan. Are not the latter also of flesh and blood? Hobbes seems to be saying that man’s nature cannot be trusted but the nature of a ruler or a ruling assembly of men can be trusted. How so?
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Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.
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Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
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The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.
