Helen Keller Quotes
To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
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I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
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People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
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Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.
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When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
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Genius: the superhuman in man.
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I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.
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There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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At age 26, I was chairman of UB Group but living like a 26-year-old. I lived my age. Which youngster doesn't like a Ferrari? Which youngster doesn't like a good time?... but my contemporaries were R. S. Goenka and Dhirubhai Ambani, captains of the industry but twice my age. You wouldn't necessarily expect them to be driving around in Ferraris.
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When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers or readers. I write the story the way it comes to me.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
