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Robert Graves
"I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate"
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Source : Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). “I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god”, Carcanet Press Ltd.
Robert Graves
#Struggle Quotes
#Fate Quotes
#Use Quotes
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“Why do airline pilots always call passengers "folks"? I don't usually take umbrage at generic terminology--I'm one of those forward-thinkers who believes that "man" encompasses the whole darned race -- but at whatever 0'clock in the mornning. I thought it would be nice to be called sometihng that suggested unwashed masses a little less.”
Source : Peggy Guggenheim (2016). “Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim”, p.186, Ravenio Books
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“When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I started taking my guitar in the audience. I tripped, fell backwards and ripped my pants.”
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“When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.”
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“Reformed theology belongs to this confessional tradition, and Reformed theologians and churches continue to write confessions even today.”
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“First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder.”
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“The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very well serve as a masculine name.”
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“Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.”
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“Most times you don't write the song, the song writes you.”