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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Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
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If something is to hard to do, then it's not worth doing.
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Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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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.
