All human joys are swift of wing. For heaven doth so allot it. That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it ~Eugene Field
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A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder. ~John D. Rockefeller
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At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means. ~Gerry Adams
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me. ~Patti Smith
#quotes #patti-smith #music #puccini #little-richard

For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition. ~Joe Scarborough
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I didn't want to be anyone else. ~Gordon Waller
#quotes #gordon-waller #personality

Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
#quotes #trevor-baylis #inspiration #ideas #night

For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices. ~Hannah Arendt
#quotes #hannah-arendt #change #choices

Everything that happens is meant to be. It is meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it is meant to be disaster. ~Tony Kaye
#quotes #tony-kaye #time #future

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ~Albert J. Nock
#quotes #albert-j-nock #society #knowledge

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. ~John Clayton
#quotes #john-clayton #christianity #holiday #positivity

I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
#quotes #john-gibson-paton #god

His rod reversed, and backward mutters of dissevering power. ~John Milton
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Sometimes the simplest things are the most profound. ~Carolina Herrera
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
#quotes #john-coltrane #feelings

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ~John Mortimer
#quotes #john-mortimer #law

The First Amendment only says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." It can disrespect all it wants. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. ~John Henrik Clarke
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. ~Laozi
#quotes #laozi #meditation

Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay. ~John Schlesinger
#quotes #john-schlesinger #homosexuality

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. ~Sam Shoemaker
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. ~Jack Nicholson
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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. ~John Calvin
#quotes #john-calvin #god

Funny, I don't feel any more powerful today than yesterday. ~Jerry B. Jenkins
#quotes #jerry-b-jenkins #power #feelings

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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