Bruce Barton Quotes
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
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The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.
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I had wanted to place the Eye-in-the-Sea at an oasis on the bottom of the ocean, in some site rich with life that was likely to be patrolled by large predators. The first time I got to test the camera at such a place was in 2004, in the north end of the Gulf of Mexico, at an amazing location called the brine pool.
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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.
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When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
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Personally, I don't even read bummer news stories about the environment because it makes me feel helpless to fix anything and reminds me that the general population doesn't treat these issues as an important part of our political life.
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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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For my everyday look, I don't like going anywhere without eye makeup.
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.
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It was really an easy decision for me to be a part of the Lakers. It's priceless. It is one of the few places where I truly get lost in the joy of the moment of that game. All of the stresses and all the responsibilities are gone.
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'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie – I never did anything bad – because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'
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In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that I was a member of between the ages of 16 and 18.
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I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.
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I'm the glue that holds everything together.
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Remote fountains are of little help to nearby fires.
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My first conflict with NOW erupted in the mid-’70s when NOW chapters increasingly rejected father involvement by rejecting shared parent time as the preferred arrangement after divorce.
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'What is love?' 'The total absence of fear,' said the Master. 'What is it we fear?' 'Love,' said the Master.
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I was always quite good at fixing and working with cars. My dad's always dealt cars, and I've always been brought up around them. They're one of the things I've always been interested in.
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This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
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I'm actually very vulnerable and sensitive.
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"In Vietnam we have no political prisoners. No one is arrested or jailed for his or her speech or point of view. They are put in jail because they violated the law"
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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things.
