Tom G. Palmer Quotes
If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
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Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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Every time you choose a perfume, you are voting. And, of course, I hope you vote for me. Not only for my ego, but for my pocketbook. The more you buy, the more money I make.
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It's time for male leaders to not only ask for binders of qualified women, but to re-write the definition of 'qualified.' The best man for the job, may in fact, be a woman, whose biography is not traditional, but is rich with experiences and skills that are not necessarily learned either in school or on the job.
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I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?
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When you find yourselves a little gloomy, look around you and find somebody that is in a worse plight than yourself; go to him and find out what the trouble is, then try to remove it with the wisdom which the Lord bestows upon you; and the first thing you know, your gloom is gone, you feel light, the Spirit of the Lord is upon you, and everything seems illuminated.
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There's two different disks recorded at two different shows. And they're two very different shows. The San Francisco disk was in front of 450 people and was a real professional show where people did their best stuff. So to some people that's going to be their favorite disk.
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I try not to think too far into the future; I'm kind of a day-by-day kind of guy.
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I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
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One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.
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Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.
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If these gouaches live at all, it is because they are true, they derive from life. They are born of the unknown – and not of habit or know-how, or intention, or of some recipe.. ..there comes a time when serious work is no longer an effort. When demanding work of that kind no longer tires you.
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If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?
