Rex Stout Quotes
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We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
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Food service is a growth area for PepsiCo.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
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Many people still believe that 'green' solutions are too expensive, but they are actually much cheaper when all of the costs to public health, social services, and waste handling are factored into the same equation.
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I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.
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I stopped doing standup because it stopped being fun. And the reason it stopped being fun was it was harder to write - and this was before the Internet - it was harder to write new stuff. It had gotten so crazy.
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Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you.
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It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
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A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.
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When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.
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Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!
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Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.
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The world is as it should be.
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I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
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Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts.
