Harvey Cushing Quotes
A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.
Harvey Cushing
Quotes to Explore
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
Oscar Hammerstein II
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Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.
Madison Smartt Bell
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Never explain, never complain.
Wallis Simpson
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
Warren Buffett
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When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.
J. C. Watts
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Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
Walter Murch
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At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.
Alberto Fujimori
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I think the cinema you like has more to do with silence, and the theater you like has more to do with language.
Ben Kingsley
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How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors...
Daniel O'Connell
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Pyrrhus said, 'If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone.'
Plutarch
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I never hear the word 'escape' Without a quicker blood, A sudden expectation, A flying attitude.I never hear of prisons broad By soldiers battered down, But I tug childish at my bars,- Only to fail again!
Emily Dickinson
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Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
