Stewart Brand Quotes
There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.
Stewart Brand
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I was the first Latino member of Congress to support Senator Obama's candidacy. For quite a while, I was the only one.
Luis Gutierrez
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What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
Arnold Palmer
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My drive to put myself on the line comes from boredom. From that feeling when you go to bed and think, 'What did I do today?' It doesn't have to be something monumental, just a feeling that you really tried to look at something, or look into something.
Dylan Moran
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I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.
Peter Diamandis
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Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia.
Jimmy Hoffa
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Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.
Yvon Chouinard
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Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
A. A. Milne
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History is one damn thing after another.
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
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He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The question of woman's work in its economic aspect is really one not so much now of woman's rights as of woman's mights. Pretty much anything she wants to do, a resolute girl may now do.
R. Heber Newton
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
W. Somerset Maugham
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A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.
J. Courtney Sullivan
