M. Scott Peck Quotes
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
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They leaped and laughed and danced like insane men, and we had much ado to prevent them seizing us in their arms and rubbing noses with us.
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I have Netflix, but I don't watch television.
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Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.
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My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.
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We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
