Thomas Wentworth Higginson Quotes
Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Quotes to Explore
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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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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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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 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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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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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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Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
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A baby was sleeping,Its mother was weeping,For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.
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If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.
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Shah Rukh Khan started his career with television, and now he is a superstar. You can't generalise and say that TV actors can't make it to films.
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Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class.
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My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.
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I couldn't imagine a home without animals.
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The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
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Every time I learn a new thing to do on my computer, I have to write it down so that I can remember it.
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Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
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I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
