Ernest Shackleton Quotes
From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.
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You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
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I never want to be a spectacle, but I also feel like a look should always have a little bit of an edge.
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Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
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If a democratic society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.
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Passions are generally roused from great conflict.
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You don't have to always write about big stuff. Writing is about expressing yourself, you know? It can be about small stuff, too.
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My friend, Sue Ann, in college pulled me aside and said, 'Honey I love you but you have got to start waxing your eyebrows. They look wild!' So thank you, that kinda changed my life.
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If a female student wants to drop a physics course, no one questions her, but if a male student tries to drop it, he will get pushback and encouraged to stay in, since he will need it later in life.
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Let's be perfectly honest. I love Rock to death. We're all different people, but Rock's a showman.
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Excellent content is available online to everyone. I like it because it's a flattening of the playing field.
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I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.
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Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.
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There is never going to be an end point. But definitely, I am happy to complete a certain part of my journey, and that's something I want to celebrate.
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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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I always felt like what I was doing wasn't selling toys; I was making a happy sound at Christmas. When people hear something so familiar, it brings them back to a special place, and that's been meaningful for me.
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A vacation for me is when I'm home and I'm writing.
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From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.
