James Bryant Conant Quotes
Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical; it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.
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Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
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We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.
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Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
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There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.
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As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
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You have to know why you get up every morning.
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I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside.
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Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
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CLUB - An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.
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If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.
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I'm from San Jose, CA, which is very diverse, and I grew up around a lot of different types of people.
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Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.
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Stories are our attempts to share our values & beliefs with the hopes that we may attract those who believe what we believe. This is the basis of forming a trusting relationship. Story telling, therefor, is only worthwhile when it tells what you stand for, not what you do.
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By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow. You shortchange yourself by devaluing the experiences and knowledge you've banked, all those things that have been making you, you.
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Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
