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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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
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Yoga has a threefold impact on health. It keeps healthy people healthy, it inhibits the development of diseases, and it aids recovery from ill health.
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Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."
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If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.
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In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
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Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.
