Charles Sumner Quotes
No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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If a Chinese student does not know Chinese learning, it's like a person without a surname, a horse without a bridle, a boat without a helm. The more Western learning he possesses, the more hateful of China he will become. Even if he becomes a capable man of vast learning, how can he be of any use to the state?
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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We can't continue to take from our planet the way we do and not give anything back, and the idea of, 'Oh, but it's fine, I won't have to deal with it in my lifetime,' well, you need to think about the future generations who will have to deal with it.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
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Peter had a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing.
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If I met Jack Nicholson, I would probably get a little flustered. Not going to lie. I've watched his movies since I was so young. Such a fan.
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When you're in 45 markets, you take it on the chin here and there.
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Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky! For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
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No true and permanent fame can be founded except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.
