John Ruskin Quotes
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
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Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
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If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.
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I love to be surrounded by nature.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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I try to keep it the same, try to stay humble.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.
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All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.
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I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.
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With every social media, there's hate and things like that.
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I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.
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Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
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Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
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I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.
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It is to the last degree distressing to contemplate the state and establishment of our navy... unless the private emolument of individuals in our navy is made superior to that in privateers, it never can become respectable; it never will become formidable. And without a respectable navy - alas, America!
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For the last eight years, American policy toward Iraq has been based on the direct threat Saddam poses to international security. That threat is clear. Saddam's history of aggression leaves little doubt that he would resume his drive for regional domination and his quest for weapons of mass destruction if he had the chance.
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You need to make things and not be so precious about whether they're any good or not. Because I have a secret for you: they're not good. They're flawed, and you need to find out what the flaws are as fast as possible.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
