Doris Kearns Goodwin Quotes
While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they were due to fill the places that had been waiting for them from the day they were born, it was, at the same time, opening its doors to a more cosmopolitan student population and beginning to take the first tentative steps toward mitigating the evils of a pyramidal social system that concentrated all its social honors upon the rich and the wellborn.Doris Kearns Goodwin
Quotes to Explore
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
Jack Canfield -
What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
Laura Dern -
I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
R. L. Stine -
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi -
From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
Jack Irons Pearl Jam -
I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
Kate Christensen -
I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
Patricia Polacco -
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza -
Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
Ja Rule
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
Victor Hugo -
If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
Mads Mikkelsen -
There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
Nancy Gibbs -
I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.
Faith Hill -
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac -
I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
Garth Nix
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You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.
Yayoi Kusama -
I think we all want to fit in at a young age.
Lily Collins -
I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
Oswald Chambers -
Emissions of greenhouse gases warm the planet, altering the carbon and water cycles. A warmer ocean stores more heat, providing more fuel for hurricanes. A warmer atmosphere holds more water, bringing dangerous deluges. Rising sea levels threaten coastal zones.
Johan Rockstrom -
While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they were due to fill the places that had been waiting for them from the day they were born, it was, at the same time, opening its doors to a more cosmopolitan student population and beginning to take the first tentative steps toward mitigating the evils of a pyramidal social system that concentrated all its social honors upon the rich and the wellborn.
Doris Kearns Goodwin