Walter Bagehot Quotes
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Quotes to Explore
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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I don't want to be jumping from team to team.
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One day, I hope to have a pot bellied pig and a wombat as pets.
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And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
