Matthew Arnold Quotes
What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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It's never been difficult for me to say no. I have never given excuses like I don't have dates. I have never over-quoted to avoid a project. I simply say that while the script might be good, I can't connect with it. My strategy is that while I wouldn't want anyone to waste my time, I shouldn't be doing that, either, with others.
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You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.
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I didn't get lessons of any kind I slept through school.
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Do you know what I like about this? We can actually get to the swings for Alyssa,
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Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.
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It takes a long time to become young.
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It's about not going to the well all the time. The body has limits. The mind has limits, too.
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What actions are the most excellent? Those, certainly, which most powerfully appeal to the great primary human affections: to those elementary feelings which subsist permanently in the race, and which are independent of time. These feelings are permanent and the same; that which interests them is permanent and the same also.
