Arthur Helps Quotes
It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
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People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
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The paths to the house I seek to make,But leave to those to come the house itself.
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Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.
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A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.
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Remember this about the Korean War: The men were drafted; the women volunteered.
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And again, President Obama's health care plan really is another drag on the economy. Until we get Washington out of the way, this president's recovery is going to continue to rank dead last.
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I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.
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The camera looks into your soul.
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If you love god, burn a church.
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I kind of follow in the tradition of some folks - some thinkers and scholars I really look up - who reject the idea of intellectual compartmentalization.
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A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
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You spend five months filming in outer space and saving the world, and suddenly that kind of family unit and story disappears, and you come crashing back down to Earth, and you have to do your own washing... and most actors are insecure that the last job they did will be their last job ever.
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Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.
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You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.
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One of the things I've been taught by Native American elders is the importance of patience, of waiting to do things when the time is right.
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It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.
