Emily Dickinson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I'm only a human being.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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Anybody can leap off a building.
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Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.
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As far as I'm concerned we are all God That's the difference If you really think another guy is God he doesn't lock you up Funny about that.
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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.
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We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'
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Bring together what is good for business with what is good for the world.
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As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.
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People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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The high-rise was a huge machine designed to serve, not the collective body of tenants, but the individual resident in isolation.
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I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off.
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I think we have a shot given the intuitive recognition that it is going to be a lot harder for people to survive
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I've always been the person to look at any turmoil as temporary. I recall times where my mom was working five and six jobs, and there's still no food in the house.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.
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The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste.
