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.
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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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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The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
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I know you want me back. It's time to face the facts. That I'm the one that's got away. Lord knows that it would take another place, another time, another world, another life. Thank God I found the good in goodbye.
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I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.
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Was nennen die Menschen am liebsten dumm? Das Gescheite, das sie nicht verstehen.
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Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?
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I don't believe in work-life balance. I think it's more about work-life integration because, increasingly, so much time of ours is spent doing work, so I've always wanted to dedicate my work life to having a social impact.
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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.
