Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.
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I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.
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It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences.
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My hobbies are painting, crafts, and I like golfing.
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.
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I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.
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Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.
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More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.
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A man is eminent as long as he is orthodox. When he begins to think for himself he becomes a crank.
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I let my life, and success, speak for itself.
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Impatience never commanded success.
