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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I'm the type of person who loves to stay busy, even in my off-season.
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I did [heroin] maybe when I was 18 but I got over that pretty quickly.
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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 feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.
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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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We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the psalms, and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.
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There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
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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.
