Eric Liu Quotes
I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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In 2011, General Alston, four-star commander in Iraq, recommended to the President, a force level of over 20,000. The President rejected it and pulled out all the forces with what is now known as a disastrous consequence in Syria.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.
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I could have just received royalty checks every month by lending my name to a collection, but I didn't want to do that. My name is a reflection of me.
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I was 17 years old when I built the first store... A very simple, basic store with a basic counter - not very much equipment, all purchased second-hand. And the menu was very simple.
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Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.
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To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.
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What I love the most about modeling is that it opens you a lot of different doors of opportunities and takes you to many different places, which then put you in touch with various people and cultures.
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I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.
