John L. Lewis Quotes
But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.
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Ozzy has dyslexia.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
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Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.
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There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.
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For me, it's life or death doing plays: there's this perfectionist thing about me that it has to be brilliant - anything less than that is a failure.
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I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
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But the Committee for Industrial Organizations is here. It is now henceforth a definite instrumentality, destined greatly to influence the lives of our people and the internal and external course of the republic.
