Arthur Dove Quotes
I can claim no background except perhaps the woods, running streams, hunting, fishing, camping, the sky...
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
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I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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I never forbid myself anything.
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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
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When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.
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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
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Don't gamble the future of your children and Malaysia; think and contemplate because your vote will determine not only the future of the country but also your grandchildren.
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Cut off the head of the snake
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Although the capacity to become schizophrenic may well be within all of us, there is no question that certain persons have distinctive genes predisposing them to the condition.
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Poet: 'Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal's pelt and no tunic.' Do you get what I mean? Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3
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For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.
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Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.
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One of the things that may get lost among all the hubbub when a company is 'going public' is that the business can now be owned, in part, by its greatest fans.
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I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.
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When I was born, there were three billion people on the planet.
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I love my mother a not-normal amount.
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But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was.
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The media lies to us all the time, and we always believe the media.
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I'm proud of the fact that I'm the only player to hit a ball completely out of Dodger Stadium.
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I can claim no background except perhaps the woods, running streams, hunting, fishing, camping, the sky...
