Robert W. Service Quotes
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
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I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.
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Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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To survive is to win.
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Even if it was a difficult operation to copy a song, it only takes one person to do it. After that the spread of the song via the Internet or other means of propagation is only limited by the honesty of the users.
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Since day one my thing has always been to play the music.
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Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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But with the morning cool reflection came.
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As a third generation American I grew up with the obsessive idea of personal liberty which engrosses all Americans except the oldest and richest families.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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Every leader, and every regime, and every movement, and every organization that steps across the line to terrorism must be banished from the discourse of civilized human life.
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Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
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I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.
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Love is the life spring of our existence. The more love you give, the happier you feel and the more love you will have within you to give.
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Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
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I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
