Al Purdy Quotes

I started writing when I was about thirteen.

Al Purdy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: December 30, 1918 - April 21, 2000

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All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

John C. Maxwell

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Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded.

Max Heindel

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I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

Stevie Smith

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Love's a disease. But curable.

Rose Macaulay

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Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.

Mary Kay Blakely

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People watch the Olympics because they want to believe in heroes; I know I did.

Mikaela Shiffrin

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When I really have it together, I think I successfully pull off looking like the exact middle point between Macklemore and Ron Howard, only with a much bigger forehead than either of them.

Chris Gethard

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We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

Christopher Reeve

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We know that when Main Street does well, so do American families.

Brett Guthrie

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I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead.

Anthony Horowitz

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Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Plato

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Scientific knowledge is, by its nature, provisional. This is due to the fact that as time goes on, with the invention of better instruments, more data and better data hone our understanding further. Social, cultural, economic, and political context are relevant to our understanding of how science works.

Priyamvada Natarajan

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