Martin Fleischmann Quotes
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?
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After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.
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Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.
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I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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People want someone focused on getting the job done, not political talking points but rather solving problems.
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Food service is a growth area for PepsiCo.
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This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'
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One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
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I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.
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The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you.
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There comes a time when the student turns his back on the teacher. His playing cannot have the necessary security, autonomy, self-faith, or communicative power until he believes his interpretation is his own.
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The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.
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Holy is the Bible word for all that makes God different from us, in particular his awesome power and purity.
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My priority is for all trains to run on time, but the WestMidRailway service has been woeful. Therefore today I'm requiring them to invest £20m in improving timetables, recruiting new train drivers to tackle staff shortages and compensating passengers.
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I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.
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At Camfed, we have focused on transforming the vicious cycle of poverty in many rural African communities into a cycle of opportunity. Alumnae of Camfed's programs go on to become role models and mentors for future generations of young students. We call this the 'virtuous circle,' and we know this is a model that works.
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If I didn't do something perfectly, I had to do it again... I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.
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You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.