William Gilmore Simms Quotes
Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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During the 2000 election, the current administration told our military, help is on the way. That is clearly not the case. The administration has failed to request the funds needed for the defense of this Nation. We must give the Army what it needs.
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It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.
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Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
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I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.
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The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.
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You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.
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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
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When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.
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If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.
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Extremes, though, are always risky and ordinarily downright baneful, and the dangers of prolonged contact with any poetry that seems to exceed what we most familiarly know of the first-class are formidable.
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Die before you Die. There is no chance after.
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People just want to have access to all of the world's music.
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Most businesses -- like most of anything else in life -- fall somewhere between mediocre and good. Few are great. When you compare great companies with good ones, many widely practiced business norms turn out to correlate with mediocrity, not greatness. So, then, why would we want to import the practices of mediocrity into the social sectors?
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To see the greatness of a mountain, one must keep one's distance.
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Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.
