Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.
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If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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Detention without trial is history in Malaysia.
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Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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Penmanship means a lot to me. I don't have cursive penmanship, though. I've created my own penmanship. It's very clear. Everyone can read it. I write things down all day long.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
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Never paint except with the three primary colors red, blue, and yellow and their derivatives.
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In Tarzan's clever little mind many thoughts revolved, and back of these was his divine power of reason. If he could catch his fellow apes with his long arm of many grasses, why not Sabor, the lioness?
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That strain once more; it bids remembrance rise.
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Fuck the Russia!
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How much luckier than all the rest of mankind are the astrologers who, if they tell one truth among a hundred lies, obtain so much credit that even their lies are believed.
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No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.
