Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.
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Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.
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Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.
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If we understand the worm, we understand life.
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I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.
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It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.
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I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive.
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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
