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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I want to play Keith Richards.
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If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
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Solitude is Wisdom’s school. Attend then the lessons of your own soul; become a pupil of the wise God within you, for by his tuitions alone shall you grow into the knowledge and stature of the deities. The seraphs descend from heaven, in the solitudes of meditation, in the stillness of prayer.
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Perhaps you have noticed that even in the slightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in different ways.
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Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.
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Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.
