Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas) Quotes
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people's quality of life.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.
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I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
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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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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.
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I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
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I believe that economic theory has arrived at a point in its development where the appeal to quantitative empirical data has become more necessary than ever. At the same time its analyses have reached a degree of complexity that require the application of a more refined scientific method than that employed by the classical economists.
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I am weary, having worked without a break all day; how beautiful it is here, to be sure, but how difficult to paint! I can see what I want to do quite clearly but I'm not there yet. It's so clear and pure in its pink and blues that the slightest misjudged stroke looks like a smudge of dirt.. .I have fourteen canvases underway.
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As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.
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One of my clearest, happiest memories is of myself at fourteen, sitting up in bed, being handed a large glass of warm buttermilk by my mother because I had a sore throat, and she saying how envious she was that I was reading 'The Catcher in the Rye' for the first time.
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Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.
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The best athlete wants his opponent at his best. The best general enters the mind of his enemy. The best businessman serves the communal good. The best leader follows the will of the people. All of the embody the virtue of non-competition. Not that they don't love to compete, but they do it in the spirit of play. In this they are like children and in harmony with the Tao.
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Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of.
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I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.
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The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
