Joseph Priestley Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
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Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding.
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Yes, well I had all my serious illnesses in late middle age. And now I'm just stuck, I'm afraid.
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The male has a negative Midas Touch - everything he touches turns to shit.
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I don't think there is rivalry between the teams in Brazil. We each do our jobs, and we each have our part in MMA.
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There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.
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A balanced program for tax reform based upon the common sense idea of lowering taxes out of surplus revenues.
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If the Republican Party does not learn to understand unmarried women as the political force and potent voting bloc that they have become, we risk becoming the minority party.
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And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing.
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Going through all of this physical stuff, it's been a tough job. But I've loved every second of my life.
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The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
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I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.
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A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
