James J. Hill Quotes
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted.
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There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.
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By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy.
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I still feel that I am in my prime right now but I think my best fights were in my thirties.
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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I am a woman above everything else.
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Your body is your body; it's natural. Learn to love yourself for it.
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Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.
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Love is what makes you dream, and love is what makes you want to get up in the morning. Love is something that you want to be a part of because it makes you better.
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Thank you, yard sales, for being the perfect way to say to your neighbors: 'We think we're important enough to charge money for our garbage.'
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I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.
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I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republicans and the Democrats are together in favor of immigration reform.
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Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.
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When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.
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A lot of times, some of my best ideas happen when I'm running. That's when I do my best thinking.
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I think this concern about a jobless recovery at this point is a bit premature,
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If you think individual, that's how you're going to come off. I've always given 'team' a chance.
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I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
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One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
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The useful and the beautiful are never separated.
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I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.
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Be strong to be useful.
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The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental.
