Chauncey Wright Quotes
The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
Abraham Lincoln
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
Rachel Gibson
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Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
Harrison Ford
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There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.
Fareed Zakaria
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
Larry Brilliant
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
Rainn Wilson
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
Ram Shriram
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
Edgar Wright
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
Ted Turner
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Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.
Imran Amed
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I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.
Vijender Singh
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The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
Gary Calamar
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When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
Gary Cherone Van Halen
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
Rajneesh
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
Pat Robertson
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I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.
Omari Hardwick
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I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
Olivier Martinez
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I try to do as much as I can for the military.
Bill Goldberg
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I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.
Van Morrison
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For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
Henry David Thoreau
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I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
Chauncey Wright