Ezra Stiles Quotes
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Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
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Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
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Learning is always great!
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I think the tax cut is ridiculous but so am I.
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To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.
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The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.
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I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.
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I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.
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Most joyful let the Poet be, it is through him that all men see.
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Your job, as a head coach and general manager, is to listen and not bypass any opportunity to help your team improve.
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Bankruptcy is a serious decision that people have to make.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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The biggest segment of our audience is 18 to 34, and, believe it or not, they still speak Spanish, and they still watch novellas and soccer games and news.
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Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
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A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
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The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
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I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
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Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
