Charles William Eliot Quotes
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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My hunger is always there.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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And the beautiful open spaces, the forests of Pennsylvania, the recreational uses that come from having these green open spaces and forests, they contribute dramatically to the level of our tourism, dramatically.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There's a lot of that in Silicon Valley.
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I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.
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The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
