John Ruskin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.
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I've picked up a great appetite for pastrami on rye and a nice cream soda. It is fantastic. So I have to be careful or I'm going to just get really fat.
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No one should die when they're 50.
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I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently.
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How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
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I would never filibuster any President’s judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to a vote.
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It's easy to say I love you with your mouth. But I like when people say I love you with their heart.
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Last Christmas, I got the worst gift a guy ever gave me. He gave me a lottery ticket... what's the guy even thinking there. Here you go... nothing! Merry Christmas! It's nothing!
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Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.
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I want to be Michael Clifford for Halloween.
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It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable.
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I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don't know what the life of a superstar is like.
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Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.
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In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power.
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All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
