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My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

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Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making. Leigh Hunt
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I want men who will believe in Me, even when I do not protect them; I will not open the prison doors where My brethren are locked; I will not stay the murderous Red sickle or the imperial lions of Rome, I will not halt the Red hammer that batters down My tabernacle doors; I want My missionaries and martyrs to love Me in prison and death as I loved them in My own suffering. I never worked any miracles to save Myself! I will work few miracles even for My saints. Begone, Satan! Thou shalt not... Fulton J. Sheen
William Shakespeare quote: "He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head..."
He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone. William Shakespeare
But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its soul and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too. W. E. B. Du Bois
Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts. Herman Melville
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it? L. M. Montgomery
I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people who accuse me are running after them. Zahi Hawass
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Traditional market researchers are cold and calculating and scientific. Frank Luntz
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There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism. George Seaton
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I've suffered too much to hide my feelings. Isabelle Adjani
When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last! Billie Jean King
I think any time you have a workplace that's heavily weighted to men just by the nature of what it is, the same way you can say PR or fashion is heavily occupied by women, there's always going to be a little bit of that sexism. Erin Duffy
It could be construed that the reason I wouldn't wish to live in England is the immigration explosion. And that's not true at all. Steven Morrissey
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. Penelope Lively