Samuel Adams Quotes
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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Teenagers watch and listen to all kinds of things. It is the nature of being a teenager to seek out intense stuff. Stuff about death and sex and love and fear. Teenagers are the bravest, most curious, most philosophical, most open-minded readers there are, which is why so many less-than-young adults like writing for them.
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Almost everywhere men have become the particular things which their particular work has made them.
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People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman - not the attitude of the prospect.
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Colors close together on the color wheel are analogous and will make a calm room. Colors that are farther apart are complementary and add drama.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
