Cotton Mather Quotes
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red triangle. Target has made a red circle with a red dot in the middle seem the very essence of affordable, hip practicality.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
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It's always good to be around nice-looking people.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.
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I do have thighs and a butt. I have cellulite.
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If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.
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Christ should leave us. He is too much with us and I don't like his friends. We have no hope of recovering Christ until Christ leaves us. There is after all something worse than being God-forsaken. It is when God overstays his welcome and take up with the wrong people.
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HuhI can't turn you loose now. If I do I'm gonna loose my life. OohI can't turn you loose now. If I do I'm gonna loose my life. I can't turn you loose to nobodyI love you baby, yes I do. Give shakin' mama, I told ya. I'm in love with only you. Gotta Baby do it baby why don't yaI'll give ya everything you want.
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Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.
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There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.
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History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
