George Horace Lorimer Quotes
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
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My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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Along with our friends in the GCC, the first order of business is stability. Beyond the imperative of stability, the most important priority is job creation for all Bahrainis.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
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My musical career was an accident.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
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I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.
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'The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in each edition of the book, the date on which the hostilities commenced is nudged forward.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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I know the old ways. There’s nothing evil there, only strange, and not even strange when you know it.
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I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.
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Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
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Sometimes you fall into the niche of being the confidant guy, or the good-looking guy, or being too charactery, or not charactery enough.
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When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.
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I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
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What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief.
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The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
