Gelett Burgess Quotes
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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Although all of us may not agree with that particular lifestyle for religious reasons, whatever the reason is, you still treat each other with respect.
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The problem of different sensitivities of distinct protein groups to lysosomal inhibitors has remained unsolved and may have served as an important trigger in the future quest for a non-lysosomal proteolytic system that may be involved in at least certain aspects of intracellular protein degradation.
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The inertia of the governed cannot be disentangled from the indifference of the government. American leaders have both a circular and a deliberate relationship to public opinion.
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Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.
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I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.
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Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I've been called a great adventurer.
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Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.
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Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.
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If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.
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I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
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That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
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The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.
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As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.
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I'm like a famous person to some people, not to everybody. I want to be big.
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When God becomes a Man and lives as a creature among His own creatures in Palestine, then indeed His life is one of supreme self-sacrifice and leads to Calvary.
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If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
