William Penn Quotes

Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.

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• Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

  

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• Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.

  

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• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

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• The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.

  

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• We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.

  

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• Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.

  

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• I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'

  

  J. J. Watt
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• Americans welcome carbon limits because they want to protect their families from harm.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.

  

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• If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
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• The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

  

  Aristotle
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• Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

  

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• I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.

  

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• You can work and scratch out a living in the theatre, but, if you want to make money, you've got to hit the road. You've got to play big houses of 2, 3 thousand seaters with your name above the bill, do popular fare and reach out to the audience such as it is.

  

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• I'm a physical comedian, and I don't get to show it off very often.

  

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• I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

  

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• It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.

  

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• Beyond racing, I just love the art form of running, of conceiving new ideas like the 50 Marathons in 50 States in 50 Days. It's the ultimate expression of what I love to do, which is run, and travel, and see this great country.

  

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• It is not easy to be honest because it is impossible to be complete.

  

  Ariana Reines
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• The feeling of support I got was pretty overwhelming. That energy and optimism was something I had been missing and didn't even know it.

  

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• Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.

  

  William Penn
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