John Phillips Quotes

#1. Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife,
In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains
A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain
New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale

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#2. When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.

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#3. The way you can recognize to what you are committed to is by your actual results. What you have gotten in life is a direct result (good or bad) to what you have been committed to.

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#4. No amount of anxiety or worry is going to make any difference to anything that's going to happen anyway, so why let yourself feel so heavy?

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#5. Faith is a reality and it reaches out to facts that are more solid, more real, more substantial, and more eternal than anything registered by our physical senses.

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#6. Goodness without knowledge... is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous.... Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind. Many men went a walking and many crippled men, did not.

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#7. Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.

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#8. Should and should not's are the furthest form or non-reality there is even the best scientists can't track what does.

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#9. My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.

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#10. Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

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#11. We will continue to see a convergence of the digital and physical world. Those who conquer that trend will be market leaders.

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#12. It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.

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#13. Well, one doesn't try to hold Cass and Denny and Michelle together. It's a useless task to start with. You just sort of stay out of the way and let things roll as they can.

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#14. Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

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#15. If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

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#16. We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

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#17. It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

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#18. Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship's hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o're the sea."
(Cutthroat's Omen: A Crimson Dawn)

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#19. We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

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