William Cobbett Quotes
Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.
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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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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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Since those who rule in the city do so because they own a lot, I suppose they're unwilling to enact laws to prevent young people who've had no discipline from spending and wasting their wealth, so that by making loans to them, secured by the young people's property, and then calling those loans in, they themselves become even richer and more honored.
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People like everything to work out, and anytime you don't make everything work out perfectly, you really are fighting against what most people are going to the movies for, especially in the summer.
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Basically, I want to make all of humanity more efficient by exploiting the human cycles that get wasted.
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Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
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Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
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Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.
