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Lord, Bless our enemies have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land. | William Pennington | [
"alone",
"peace"
] |
And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence. | William Peter Blatty | [
"sad"
] |
Money is the best rule of commerce. | William Petty | [
"finance"
] |
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. | William Plomer | [
"power"
] |
I highly recommend worrying. It is much more effective than dieting. | William Powell | [
"diet"
] |
The last few years have been my happiest. I'm happy in the years that most people are blue and sad and waiting to die. I don't feel that a bit. Smiling has a lot to do with it. You can just lift your spirits by smiling a little bit. | William Proxmire | [
"sad"
] |
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. | William Randolph | [
"politics"
] |
In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all. | William Randolph Hearst | [
"money"
] |
But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers. | William Robertson Smith | [
"religion"
] |
Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged. | William Robertson Smith | [
"religion"
] |
The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity. | William Robertson Smith | [
"religion"
] |
We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit. | William Robertson Smith | [
"religion"
] |
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. | William Robertson Smith | [
"imagination",
"religion"
] |
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual. | William Robertson Smith | [
"religion"
] |
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society. | William Robertson Smith | [
"religion"
] |
In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual. | William Robertson Smith | [
"religion"
] |
Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way. | William S. Burroughs | [
"money"
] |
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. | William S. Burroughs | [
"change"
] |
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks. | William S. Burroughs | [
"society"
] |
Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative. | William S. Burroughs | [
"knowledge"
] |
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. | William S. Burroughs | [
"happiness",
"war"
] |
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. | William S. Burroughs | [
"education",
"knowledge"
] |
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits. | William S. Burroughs | [
"dreams"
] |
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. | William S. Burroughs | [
"business"
] |
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. | William S. Burroughs | [
"change",
"hope"
] |
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. | William S. Burroughs | [
"sad"
] |
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. | William S. Burroughs | [
"learning"
] |
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole. | William S. Burroughs | [
"travel"
] |
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. | William S. Burroughs | [
"society"
] |
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. | William S. Burroughs | [
"pet"
] |
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing. | William Safire | [
"work"
] |
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords. | William Samuel Johnson | [
"happiness"
] |
To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly. | William Samuel Johnson | [
"wisdom"
] |
Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage. | William Samuel Johnson | [
"courage"
] |
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. | William Samuel Johnson | [
"strength"
] |
Another very strong image from the first day was giving my initial press conference in the morning - going down and finding out that everything I had said, the essence of what I had said, was wrong. | William Scranton | [
"morning"
] |
And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people. | William Scranton | [
"health"
] |
Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment people were going to need and this or that, or, indeed, whether there would be medical personnel around. | William Scranton | [
"medical"
] |
I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy. | William Scranton | [
"morning"
] |
The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know. | William Scranton | [
"morning"
] |
The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state. | William Scranton | [
"relationship"
] |
And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained. | William Scranton | [
"morning"
] |
By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it. | William Scranton | [
"morning"
] |
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. | William Shakespeare | [
"sympathy"
] |
'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems. | William Shakespeare | [
"best"
] |
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. | William Shakespeare | [
"nature",
"time"
] |
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. | William Shakespeare | [
"love"
] |
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. | William Shakespeare | [
"death"
] |
To do a great right do a little wrong. | William Shakespeare | [
"great"
] |
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. | William Shakespeare | [
"men"
] |
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. | William Shakespeare | [
"life"
] |
Death is a fearful thing. | William Shakespeare | [
"death"
] |
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. | William Shakespeare | [
"age"
] |
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. | William Shakespeare | [
"imagination"
] |
Love is too young to know what conscience is. | William Shakespeare | [
"love"
] |
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. | William Shakespeare | [
"trust"
] |
God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another. | William Shakespeare | [
"god"
] |
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. | William Shakespeare | [
"time"
] |
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. | William Shakespeare | [
"men",
"women"
] |
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. | William Shakespeare | [
"good",
"love"
] |
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. | William Shakespeare | [
"love"
] |
When a father gives to his son, both laugh when a son gives to his father, both cry. | William Shakespeare | [
"fathersday"
] |
The golden age is before us, not behind us. | William Shakespeare | [
"age"
] |
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. | William Shakespeare | [
"happiness"
] |
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. | William Shakespeare | [
"love",
"trust"
] |
In time we hate that which we often fear. | William Shakespeare | [
"fear",
"time"
] |
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. | William Shakespeare | [
"god"
] |
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. | William Shakespeare | [
"time"
] |
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. | William Shakespeare | [
"great",
"men"
] |
I bear a charmed life. | William Shakespeare | [
"life"
] |
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart. | William Shakespeare | [
"good"
] |
But men are men the best sometimes forget. | William Shakespeare | [
"best",
"men"
] |
An overflow of good converts to bad. | William Shakespeare | [
"good"
] |
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. | William Shakespeare | [
"love"
] |
Speak low, if you speak love. | William Shakespeare | [
"love"
] |
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. | William Shakespeare | [
"good",
"life",
"nature"
] |
A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. | William Shakespeare | [
"nature",
"peace"
] |
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. | William Shakespeare | [
"god",
"work"
] |
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. | William Shakespeare | [
"love"
] |
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear. | William Shakespeare | [
"good"
] |
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? | William Shakespeare | [
"courage",
"love"
] |
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. | William Shakespeare | [
"great"
] |
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. | William Shakespeare | [
"fear"
] |
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. | William Shakespeare | [
"life",
"men"
] |
The love of heaven makes one heavenly. | William Shakespeare | [
"love"
] |
The valiant never taste of death but once. | William Shakespeare | [
"death"
] |
The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones. | William Shakespeare | [
"good",
"men"
] |
It is a wise father that knows his own child. | William Shakespeare | [
"fathersday"
] |
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once. | William Shakespeare | [
"death"
] |
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. | William Shakespeare | [
"nature"
] |
Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. | William Shakespeare | [
"life"
] |
For I can raise no money by vile means. | William Shakespeare | [
"money"
] |
If music be the food of love, play on. | William Shakespeare | [
"food",
"love",
"music"
] |
No, I will be the pattern of all patience I will say nothing. | William Shakespeare | [
"patience"
] |
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. | William Shakespeare | [
"good"
] |
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. | William Shakespeare | [
"good",
"marriage"
] |
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. | William Shakespeare | [
"life"
] |
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. | William Shakespeare | [
"music"
] |
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. | William Shakespeare | [
"hope",
"newyears"
] |
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too! | William Shakespeare | [
"experience",
"sad",
"travel"
] |
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