A. R. Ammons Quotes
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.
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The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.
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However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succeed.
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
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When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.
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I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
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The villains that I play, I always think that they are grounded, wonderful people with enormous intellects who are very exciting to spend an evening with. I never see them as bad people.
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One of the things that I like about 'Narcos' is that not only Pablo but with all the characters - this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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Managerial discretion can take many forms, some very subtle. Individual managers may run slack operations; they may pursue subgoals that are at variance with corporate purposes; they can engage in self-dealing.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.
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Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
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The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.
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After the end of the year election and the set up of the second National Economic Development Advisory Conference, I shall start to improve the economy.
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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
