Erskine Bowles Quotes
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Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
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You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
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I will be very involved in Ukraine.
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
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As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many.
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I just tried to keep from not turning the ball over and in getting the ball to our playmakers. I don't care about all of the other accolades. Not winning any awards took the pressure off of me. I just wanted to do my part to win this for the guys.
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Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!
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There is no such thing as an ugly woman.
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The paid Trump surrogates help CNN keep his supporters engaged with their shows, but it also sends their own reporters busy chasing after many of their false claims. That's not a virtuous news cycle. It's an insidious one.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.
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As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family.
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News writes history from the perspective of politicians. Film writes history from the perspective of the people.
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I am not anyone's enemy.
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Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.
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For, among the world's incertitudes, this thing called arithmetic is established by a sure reasoning that we comprehend as we do the heavenly bodies. It is an intelligible pattern, a beautiful system, that both binds the heavens and preserves the earth. For is there anything that lacks measure, or transcends weight? It includes all, it rules all, and all things have their beauty because they are perceived under its standard.
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I always thought that I was okay with arithmetic.
