Orison Swett Marden Quotes
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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Being on your own sometimes is appealing.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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It isn't always on the front pages, but the horrifying mistreatment and subjugation of women around the globe is very much worthy of more attention.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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How dull it is to have people defining you.
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The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
