Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for instance.
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I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
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Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull into ourselves, retreating into either survivalist or escapist mode. To the contrary, this is the time for titans, not turtles. Now is the time to open our arms, expand our horizons, and dream big. Big problems require big solutions.
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There is time enough for everything, in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things at a time.
