William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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It's good for the NHL to implement different things - the 3-on-3, money that'll go to players - to try to get us to play at a higher level.
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I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
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Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
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We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
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I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided.
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How true it is that some have greatness thrust upon them! - and you may be quite sure that it was none of my seeking.
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Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.
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My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.
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To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
