Will Durant Quotes
The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
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I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
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On the battlefield, the military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge that when they return home, we leave no veteran behind.
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Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.
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Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working.
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The act of focusing our mightiest intellectual resources on the elusive goal of goto-less programs has helped us get our minds off all those really tough and possibly unresolvable problems and issues with which today's professional programmer would otherwise have to grapple.
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We'll just wait and see. If it gets out of hand it gets out of hand, we're just here to play cricket.
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What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.
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Hitler was no inexorable product of a German 'special path', no logical culmination of long-term trends in specifically German culture and ideology. Nor was he a mere 'accident' in the course of German history.
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history.
