Robert Falcon Scott Quotes
But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.
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Sometimes, all the interviews, those are the toughest thing for me, but once you really start to do it a lot and start to get used to it, I can find some fun in those parts, too. Because playing golf is the easiest thing for me, and that's something I'm so used to; that's why it was always easy.
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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The hypothesis that economic organization is the resultant of a series of historic accidents is intructive in that many organizational innovations appear to be the result of trial and error.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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I definitely love kimchi. The biggest influence that eating so much Korean food growing up had on me was that I have no limit for spiciness. The hotter the better.
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Some companies simply aren't meant to be bigger than they are. They provide products and services that satisfy their customers in a way that pays the bills, produces reasonable profits, and allows them to keep their people employed and fulfilled. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with that.
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.
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St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.
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Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
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She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.
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But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.
