Elizabeth Janeway Quotes
I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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There have been numerous tips and numerous people offering advice. I appreciate it because it all comes with good feelings from the heart. But some of it we'll apply, and some things we won't.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.
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What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we'd see snook and redfish and probably goliath grouper. And it's an amazing world unto itself and a very thin demarcation between one world and the other. You know, the distance of the water surface.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.
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The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
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We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult.
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I realize that you have to show up for your life.
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Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.
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People should never allow themselves to be dictated to by media.
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In countries where there is great private wealth, much may be effected by the voluntary contributions of patriotic individuals; but in a community situated like that of the United States, the public purse must supply the deficiency of private resource. In what can it be so useful, as in prompting and improving the efforts of industry?
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The oaks of ald now they lie in peat yet elms leap where askes lay. (4.14-15)
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I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.
