William Henry Ashley Quotes
The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.
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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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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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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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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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I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.
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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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Only conviction sells. Well, when we are insecure, we really don't have that 100 percent conviction. Once we have it, we can tide over everything.
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Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
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I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
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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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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
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Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
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Many hooligans discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The fathers superior of the order do not try to influence their children in Satan; they merely shake their heads in sorrow. They know that the apostate must work out his own damnation.
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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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The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.
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Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
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California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone
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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
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We started off 0-4 and, for this team, it is just a matter of everybody stepping up their play to the level of the captains. I am still not pleased with the way we are playing. It is the small things, but this win shows that we can play with the best.
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Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.
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Michel Platini is a good player, not a great player
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American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.
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The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.
