William H. McRaven Quotes
You cant change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.
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Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.
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The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.
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We don't need to update the paper through the night, so we don't need so many people working anti-social hours producing a newspaper for real-time news. That's the equivalent of the steam age.
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You cant change the world alone - you will need some help - and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.