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 kids are the ones that have a clarity about what they want. They don't have any wisdom, but they do have a clear understanding about what they want to have happen.
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In fact - statistically, as you know - people have done polls, research, and at least 80 percent or more or working media are liberal Democrats if they are involved with any party and certainly liberal in their philosophy.
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When Clint Eastwood walks into a room, you may not know his name. But you know who he is.
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The rest of us are still trying to find ways to live in the world with spirit-ual values. Myself included. We've learned certain skills, we've learned to prevail somewhat, but we've not made it over the mountain.
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A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice
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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
