Walter Bagehot Quotes
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Walter Bagehot
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Michael Kitchen was a great person to work with. So attentive and just great at what he does and supportive, also.
Gary Carr
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
Ziyi Zhang
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
Beck
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It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets.
Gary Johnson
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My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells of memory, over which, if you can still stand my style (I am writing under observation), the sun of my infancy had set: surely, you all know those redolent remnants of day suspended, with the midges, about some hedge in bloom or suddenly entered and traversed by the rambler, at the bottom of a hill, in the summer dusk; a furry warmth, golden midges.
Vladimir Nabokov
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The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!
William Shakespeare
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There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.
William Blackstone
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Our main inspiration with Alix MacKenzie, I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were selected not for art content but for their relationship to the anthropological history of mankind.
Warren MacKenzie
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Walter Bagehot
