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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Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.
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Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.
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I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the jewels of wisdom, patience, and above all with a love of liberty.
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Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
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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.
