Thomas Starr King Quotes
Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opinion or custom on what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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How does one get bored of life?
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.
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Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.
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Pussycat, pussycat,You're so thrilling and I'm so willingto care for you.So go and make up you big little pussy cat eyes.
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Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose,Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes.
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They never forgot That even the most dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
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The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the Government, the sovereign power.
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I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.
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Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology.
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I'm pretty romantic.
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Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.
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There is hardly a place in New York that you can't walk a block and a half and get a cup of coffee. Believe me, I've been all over the world. There's no place like that but New York City.
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We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.
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That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.
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I don't want to sacrifice my life, as I feel that I'm still very selfish and still want to pursue my dreams.
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Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.
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I can't selfishly take journeys anymore because I have to take a little boy along with me.
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Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opinion or custom on what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science.
