Walt Whitman Quotes
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Quotes to Explore
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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I love anything to do with history.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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Many fiction writers who put the science in don't get it right.
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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy sprayWarbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.
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Particularly over the last few decades, technological innovation has offered opportunities to bring people and nations together - but it has also created significant new challenges to law enforcement.
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Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public servants, are being honest, holding them accountable for their actions!
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I think the public needs to be reminded just how much inspiration and intention was given throughout the world to be bold, to send human beings to the moon in the '60s and the '70s. It's important now to bring together the nations that weren't able to do it then and help them do it. We need to move forward.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
