Ezra Stiles Quotes
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
Ezra Stiles
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
Aaron Tveit
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
Carl Sagan
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
Dan O'Brien
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
Daniel Craig
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
Gabriel Byrne
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
Xun Kuang
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I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in a very physical sense, can be oppressive. You find people wanting to be in dark places, not really see themselves, see themselves as a filtered image. A curated image.
K. Flay
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The bottom line: health care reform is about the patient, not about the physician.
Abraham Verghese
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
Sam Bradford
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Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
Barton Gellman
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I just go with the flow, so any style can be in my music - that makes it exciting.
Yoko Ono
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Even though there were three newspapers in Chicago at the time, he said 'you wouldn't want to compete with your husband," and so instead of doing what I might do now in that situation, I basically saluted and found other things to do.
Madeleine Albright
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In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.
Emma Orczy
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I am the most successful unsuccessful actor in New York. And I guess with that, maybe apparent only to myself, there started to be a very subtle but unmistakable whiff of entitlement, bitterness, jealousy. I was not respecting the work.
Norbert Leo Butz
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It is human self-renunciation when a man denies himself and the world opens up to him. But it is Christian self-renunciation when he denies himself and, because the world precisely for this shuts itself up to him, he must as one thrust out by the world seek God's confidence. The double-danger lies precisely in meeting opposition there where he had expected to find support, and he has to turn about twice; whereas the merely human self-resignation turns once.
Soren Kierkegaard
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That radicalism of the '70s was phony, really, because it was out of guilt. I'd always felt guilty that I made money, so I had to give it away or lose it. I don't mean I was a hypocrite. When I believe, I believe right down to the roots.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
Ezra Stiles
