Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
Quotes to Explore
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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I know where I want to get to, and I know where I want to be still in my career.
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
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You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.
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To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.
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If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.
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I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contemporary but still be me. It was just a matter of getting it right.
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Success is goals, everything else is commentary.
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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
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Lebedeva snapped her fingers. “It’s like lying!” she exclaimed. “Well, we understand that, of course! The bigger the lie, the happier the liar.”
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One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.
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If life is worth living then it's worth recording.
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There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.
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The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself to the greatest extent possible. When you do that, you have dignity. You have the pride. You can walk about with character and pride no matter in what place you happen to finish.
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A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
