James Russell Lowell Quotes

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, - One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

James Russell Lowell

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• If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

  

  Larry Wall
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• ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Technology
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• If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
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• Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
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• Chana dal are skinless dried split chickpeas used in Indian cooking. They have a great texture and delicate flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• Gluttony is not a secret vice.

  

  Orson Welles
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• If a guy is skilled at anything, that's attractive. There's something very primal about that and, sure, it can be as simple as figuring out the tip quickly. It's really cool when a guy tips 20 percent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.

  

  Danica McKellar
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• America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.

  

  Ted Yoho
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• I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Heart
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• Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • World
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• I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.

  

  Omari Hardwick
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• I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Around
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  • Corner

• The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Temptation
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  • Yield

• I want to surprise people and do different things and maybe do something that's not quite financially rewarding.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.

  

  Gayle Gardner
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• I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• The noble gases, which reside on the East Coast of the periodic table, are its aristocrats - detached and aloof, never bothering to interact with the rabble of common elements that make up the vast majority of the world.

  

  Sam Kean
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  • World
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• By 2013, at the age of 29, I was failing. I had left two good jobs in succession to complete a novel I'd been tooling around with since 2009, had enrolled in a graduate programme in Texas, as far away from home as possible, to finish it - and yet: what did I have to show for it after five years of work?

  

  Karan Mahajan
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• Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

  

  Alcuin

• Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

  

  Alexander Downer

• Maybe scarcity isn't always a bad thing. Maybe scarcity is something to seek out, to fabricate for oneself.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Bad

• The most beautiful landscapes in the world, if they evoke no memory, if they bear no trace of a remarkable event, are uninteresting compared to historic landscapes.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • World
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• Two meanings have our lightest fantasies, - One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

  

  James Russell Lowell