Frederick W. Smith Quotes
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Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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If you're happy with who you are, that's going to show, and you don't have to apologize for anything.
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
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I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not really patient enough to sit through hours of gaming.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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I'm having as much fun today as I did when I made $55 a week, because it is as much fun.
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What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
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When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.
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When you're young, you don't care about your parents and what they're doing. But then you get to your 20s, and you start watching their movies. And then you become an actor, as I did late in college, and then you're really watching them. And they were really very good.
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Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.
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Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world.
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There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.
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My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.
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A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
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Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.
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Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.
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Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up.
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The challenge in fiction is to write a terrific story. The challenge in journalism is to communicate solid, objective information. The challenge in creative non-fiction is to do it both and to do it well.
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I never sweat about work. I just assume work's coming.
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Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.
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I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss.
