Philip James Bailey Quotes
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
Quotes to Explore
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Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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I think at places like 'Slate' or the magazine where I work, there was a really poor record of hiring African-American writers. It was really that simple. And I think with the proliferation of the Internet and Internet media, it has been a little harder to maintain that gatekeeper position.
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I don't think Ed Horman could be dishonest if his life depended on it.
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It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
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After about 1940, scientists generally stopped looking for elements in nature. Instead, they had to create them by smashing smaller atoms together.
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Death is only an old door/Set in a garden wall.
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If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.
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I quit drinking, and I figure if I go to ten Yankee games this year without drinking I'll save $32,000.
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I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.
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You’ll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair.
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Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.
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I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
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I think gymnastics was associated with the 10. I thought that belonged to the sport, and somehow we gave it way.
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Our job is not the harvest, our job is the seed.
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There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive.
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Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.
