Quotes with stratford-upon-avon

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  • Oswald Chambers We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Asa Gray We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Anne Wilson Schaef We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
    Anne Wilson Schaef
    American clinical psychologist and author
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  • Walter Bagehot We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Oscar Wilde We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Woodrow Wilson We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Henry Miller We talk about fate as if it were something visited upon us; we forget that we create our fate every day we live.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bobby Seale We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Mary Daly We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister.
    Mary Daly
    American radical feminist philosopher, academic, and theologian (1928 - 2010)
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  • Audre Lorde We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bobby Hull Well, Brett was a pretty laid back kid and I think all the pressure was heaped upon my eldest boy, Bobby.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • A. E. van Vogt Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Bobby Hull Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Beth Brooke What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.
    Beth Brooke
    American businesswoman and athelete (1959 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Napoleon What is history but a fable agreed upon?
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Willem De Kooning Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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  • A. Brisbane Whatever good there is in small boys is usually based upon their admiration for girls of their own age.
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  • Benjamin Robbins Curtis Whatever may be the merits of a religious system, its effects upon the mass of mankind must depend in an important degree upon its teachers. All instruction and all truth, except simple mathematical truth, is modified by the medium through which it is conveyed.
    Benjamin Robbins Curtis
    American attorney (1809 - 1874)
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