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William Cowper quote: "O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy..."

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

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In each studio there is a human being dressed in the full regalia of his myth fearing to expore a vulnerable opening, spreading not his charms but his defences, plotting to disrobe, somewhere along the night-- his body without the aperture of the heart or his heart with a door closed to his body. thus keeping one compartment for refuge, one uninvaded cell. Anais Nin
Kevin Smith quote: "Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions..."
Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved. Kevin Smith
David Horowitz quote: "You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic..."
You could mention my name in any hallway in any academic institution and you would have people foaming at the mouth. David Horowitz
Just as Christians should not be constantly feeling the pulse of their spiritual life, so too the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be continually taking its temperature. The more thankfully we daily receive what is given to us, the more assuredly and consistently will community increase and grow from day to day as God pleases Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did. James Baldwin
The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust. Herman Hesse
My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues. Peter Singer
Maya Angelou quote: "The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights...."
The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all? Maya Angelou
I hope that some day the practice of producing cowpox in human beings will spread over the world - when that day comes, there will be no more smallpox. Edward Jenner
Saul Williams quote: "My love is my soul's imagination... how do I love you... imagine."
My love is my soul's imagination... how do I love you... imagine. Saul Williams
Michel de Montaigne quote: "Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. Michel de Montaigne
James Denton quote: "I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more..."
I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that. James Denton
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He's Soderbergh, we're working for him. It doesn't matter what he's doing; we'll see it at the premiere. Terence Stamp
John Lee Hancock quote: "A good deed is a good deed."
A good deed is a good deed. John Lee Hancock
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God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. Paul Valery