Emily Dickinson Quotes
Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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I'm an old trial lawyer.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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I used to just sit in the living room and make up songs on the keyboard.
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Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?
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I think it need realness, you should speak on thing that you know about, that you being from, that you experienced or that you been around, you know. I think you need a good hook, good beats and good lyrics.
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.
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If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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A general problem with much of Western theology... is that the God portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy, much less a universe.
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'Reason', p. 63
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Dignity is central to the sustainability of history.
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After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.
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My successor, John Kerry, and President Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.
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'But at least you cared. At least you were ready to do something.''This little mess,' Auger said, 'is all because of people who were ready to do something. People like me, who always know when they’re right and everyone else is wrong. Maybe what we need is a few less of us.'
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The idea that the brain is not fully formed until you are almost 30 years old has already been introduced, and the Supreme Court already has based two rulings on it.
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For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this 'Celebration' village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very first.
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You either master money, or, on some level, money masters you.
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Faust complains of having two souls in his breast. I have a whole squabbling crowd. It goes on as in a republic.
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Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.
