William Adams Quotes
If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I don't see myself ever selling Republic or AutoNation.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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...most of the people in a war never fight for even a minute-though they bear for years and die forever. They do not fight, but only starve, only suffer, only die: the sum of all this passive misery is that great activity, War.
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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a 'living' document. But we have a long way to go to get our modern privacy laws in line with modern technology.
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These five rules above form all that is necessary to render proofs convincing, immutable, and to say all, geometrical; and the eight rules together render them even more perfect.
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I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them.
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I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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Thought is not consecrated unless it resists trends.
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It would be extraordinary if the BBC were to make me the first black 'Doctor Who;' it would be extraordinary.
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I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.
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If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.
