Tom Lehrer Quotes
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As a leader, you don't get too high on the highs or let the bumps balance down. Every leader over time has probably equal amount of good luck or bad luck - or, you could argue, has good opportunities or challenges.
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Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.
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In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.
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There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.
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The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.
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I'm proud of Russia, that's true. And we have something to be proud of, but we do not have any obsession with being a superpower in the international arena.
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The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world!
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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
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The greatest joy in getting ready for the film is that there aren't many reference points for the journey and you've got to define it for yourself.
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Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.
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Who knows what hellish future lies ahead? ... Actually, I do. I've seen the rehearsals.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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We recognize that your emotional information is extremely personal. And so we have veered away from all use cases where that data is being collected without your consent.
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The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.
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The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.
