Joseph Story Quotes
Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
Dan Gilbert
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Octavio Paz
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
Natalie Cole
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I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.
Kanye West
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
Nas
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater
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I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.
Hannibal Buress
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I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
Adam Driver
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I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.
Malala Yousafzai
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Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
Illinois Jacquet
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
Walter Bagehot
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The professionals must set a good example.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
Samuel Johnson
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When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.
Callie Khouri
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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi
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I don't subscribe to the idea that the founders or anyone else were somehow better than us and that we have to live up to their example.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to turn your good ideas into positive changes in other people's lives? You must be the 'how generation.'
Bill Clinton
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I'm just one example of thousands of transgender veterans and people who are actively serving today.
Allyson Robinson
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It is only from the people I've had the good fortune to meet that I am learning the lessons to guide me. Baz Luhrmann, director of 'Moulin Rouge,' for example, has a childlike curiosity about the world. He doesn't pretend to know all the answers - quite the opposite, in fact. He asks loads of questions of everyone.
Simon Sinek
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In both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did this in our place as our representative and our substitute.
Jerry Bridges
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Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.
Joseph Story