John Steinbeck Quotes
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.
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Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.
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Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
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For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
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Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.
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'Sounds impressive. And expensive.''Not at all.' Danziger shook his head firmly. 'It will cost, all told, only a little over three million dollars, less than the cost of two hours of war, and a better buy.'
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Everyone thinks chemistry and alchemy are so similar, but they’re really not. They’re not even related. They just happen to live in the same house.
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I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usuallyright.
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No man ever praised two persons equally – and pleased them both.
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Life is a four-letter word.
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There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.
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The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
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When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
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A significant number of petroleum geologists believe that we will reach the global maximum of petroleum extraction within this decade or that we have already reached it. Peak Oil happened in 1970 in America, when over half of our oil that we gained from the soil was exhausted ... This is very disturbing, regardless of global warming.
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I did a theater program the summer of my junior year, and that's when I really fell in love with the craft of acting. It became more about the craft and less about being a working actor.
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Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.
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Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.
