Samuel Horsley Quotes
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.
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Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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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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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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The fact that the general incidence of leukemia has doubled in the last two decades may be due, partly, to the increasing use of x-rays for numerous purposes. The incidence of leukemia in doctors, who are likely to be so exposed, is twice that of the general public. In radiologists … the incidence is ten times greater.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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As a small business owner myself, I talk to so many other business owners who delay seasonal hiring by waiting until the last minute to make their temporary hires.
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The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history.
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Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.
