Nellie McClung Quotes
War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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The resources of our continent attract, more than ever, the interests of rich countries.
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.
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If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.
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The San Gabriel Valley, stretching from Pasadena to Pomona, is especially starved for open space. The valley has a rich array of ethnically diverse communities, but it also has some of the highest rates of childhood obesity and diabetes in the state.
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I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.
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Rich people march on Washington every day.
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The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
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Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
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No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.
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This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.
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I know what I like to use myself. I use Leicas, but when I look at the photograph, I don't ask the photograph questions. Mine or anybody else's. The only time I've ever dealt with that kind of thing is when I'm teaching.
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Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
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One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as writing that line. A yogi sees things in every movement he makes, maybe when practicing, maybe when teaching, or maybe when talking to people. You should have courage in your convictions and pursue what is dear to you all these years.
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Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started.
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It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.
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During the last 35 years, the artists multiplied, the public grew enormously, the economy exploded, and so-called contemporary art became fashionable. All these parameters changed the art world form its previous aspects and fundamentals - the explosion of museums and institutions, explosion of Biennales and Triennials, explosion of money, explosion of interest, explosion of artists, explosion of countries interested in contemporary exhibitions, explosion of the public. Not to see that is to be more than blind.
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Schools should be integrated by race and by class.
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The future is now.
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I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
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Dana White, bring me someone that can beat me. You can't find no one that can beat me.
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War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.
