E. J. Pratt Quotes
The mark of an educated man is not in his boast that he has built his mountain of facts and has stood on top of it, but in his admission that there may be other peaks in the same range with men on top of them, and that, though their views of the landscape may be different from his, they are none the less legitimate.

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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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It is such a tricky transition between education and work.
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The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.
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Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with a gesture of profundity questions grow out of confrontation with the subject matter and the subject matter is there only where eyes are, it is in this manner that questions will be posed and all the more considering that questions that have today fallen out of fashion in the great industry of problems. One stands up for nothing more than the normal running of the industry. Philosophy interprets its corruption as the resurrection of metaphysics.
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In a 21st-century economy, it is critical that we equip our nation's children with the tools they need to compete in a global marketplace.
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Brisk Confidence still best with woman copes: Pique her and soothe in turn-soon Passion crowns thy hopes.
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The mark of an educated man is not in his boast that he has built his mountain of facts and has stood on top of it, but in his admission that there may be other peaks in the same range with men on top of them, and that, though their views of the landscape may be different from his, they are none the less legitimate.