William Henry Ashley Quotes
I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
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One of the things I love about music is live performance.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
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There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
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We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.
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Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
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Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.
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I think so badly of philosophy that I don't like to talk about it. … I do not want to say anything bad about my dear colleagues, but the profession of teacher of philosophy is a ridiculous one. We don't need a thousand of trained, and badly trained, philosophers - it is very silly. Actually most of them have nothing to say.
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Iimitate everyone except myself.
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[T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting his ethics, which have their basis in religious conviction, is deceiving himself either about the true nature of government or his moral responsibility for his actions
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Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.
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Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.
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I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.
