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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If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.
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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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It was right for them to make bond-servants of the nations round them, they having an express permission to do it from him who has a right to dispose of all men as he pleases.
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My district is centered around the progressive college town of Boulder, Colorado, and the high-tech U.S. 36 corridor. It goes from the well-established suburbs of northwest Denver in Adams County to the beautiful mountain towns of Vail and Breckenridge and the majestic Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains.
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When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation...
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The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.
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Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
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It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
