Emily Dickinson Quotes
No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!
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I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.
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As President Obama clearly said just a few months ago, China must play by the international rules, the international trading system from which they've benefited so much.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.
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I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
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I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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The name ‘London Banker’ had especially a charmed value. He was supposed to represent, and often did represent, a certain union of pecuniary sagacity and educated refinement which was scarcely to be found in any other part of society.
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It is good to be a cynic-it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world-we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death-the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
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Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!With baskets.
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Donald Evans is a favorite person of mine. His worth ethic, his attitude and his dedication really set him apart.
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Love is intense, and sadness is intense.
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Wealth and power are means to women; women are means to genetic eternity.
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Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.
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A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)
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I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.
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Society's needs come before the individuals needs.
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The war is for the family. The battle for their children's education and their grandchildren's freedom is as real to them as if they could witness the clangs of bayonets on the field or hear the blasts of mortars in the harbor.
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No ladder needs the bird but skies To situate its wings, Nor any leaders grim baton Arraigns it as it sings.
