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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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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I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.
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If I was a male, I had the right to, when I stepped out the door, take off my shirt. It's not right for the state to ask me to be both male and female. A choice needs to be made. They cannot hold me to both standards.
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New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.
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The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
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Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.
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It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
