Thomas A. Edison Quotes
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .
Quotes to Explore
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
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I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.
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For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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Angry or not. It's a human emotion. But you can't walk around being angry all the time. What a dull person you'd have to be!
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To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .
