James Thurber Quotes
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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Sorrel adds a unique grassy sharpness to salads and dressings, but it can be hard to come by.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.
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The level of dynamism is a matter of how fertile the country is in coming up with innovative ideas having prospects of profitability, how adept it is at identifying and nourishing the ideas with the best prospects, and how prepared it is in evaluating and trying out the new products and methods that are launched onto the market.
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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I've gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I've done my best, and I still haven't got them. So I think I've been lucky in who's decided I'd be worthy of their time.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.
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I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.
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Really unfiltered personal writing is cool to me. I'm like, 'How did you show that to everyone?'
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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.
