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 definitely like wearing leotards.
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I believe that God made this wonderful universe and all that exists.
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'Molto Mario' was the show that sparked my entire interest in cooking.
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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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There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.
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First you learn to drive fast. Next, you learn to drive fast in traffic. Then, you learn how to do it for 500 miles.
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Why give a million dollars to someone if they have not proved that they can make a million dollars?
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It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.
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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.
