Herbert Spencer Quotes
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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I want audiences to see me in different avatars.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.
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Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
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Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.
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And is there care in Heaven? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?
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I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.
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Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.
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I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.
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People will watch your film only if it's good. Another star's flop won't make your film a hit. So my race is with myself.
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If working remotely is such a great idea, why isn't everyone doing it? I think it's because we've been bred on the idea that work happens from 9 to 5, in offices and cubicles. It's no wonder that most who are employed inside that model haven't considered other options, or resist the idea that it could be any different. But it can.
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Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.
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All actors think every job will be their last.
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I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes … have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.
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The problem of the environment is the extension of good housekeeping of the thinking woman.
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The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
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When I go on stage man I just want people to have fun, I don't want people to think about their problems, I want people to get energy and nutrition and food from that so they can go back into the real world and work on their problems.
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The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
