Stephen Leacock (Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock) Quotes
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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They didn't accept me theory - not a theory, but just a thought I had about this character. I noticed that this man only exists when the boy comes into the grocery.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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I don't like the mentality that comes with rich Russian men. Because they have money, they think they can buy a woman - and they do.
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Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
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Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
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The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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The Monsters & Strangerz, I love them so much.
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I respect John Kennedy for saying that he had a dream that we'd go to the moon before the end of the decade.
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I had a recurring stress dream since I was a kid 10 years old. My friend Travis is driving, and I'm afraid we're going to get in trouble. We keep passing people I recognize, and no one is doing anything. Travis keeps driving faster. I've had that dream a long time.
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It may be those who do most, dream most.
