Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
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Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.
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The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his is the job to turn his culture from religion, to eliminate those irrational ideas which have held the human race in intellectual slavery.
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The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
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L'adultère introduit l'esprit dans la lettre que bien souvent le mariage eût laissée morte.
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People come to see the stars, and then they walk away with two or three new favorites.
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Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.
