Washington Irving Quotes
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The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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I believe in my music.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
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For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.
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The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believe.
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Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid aside his arms and burnt a house, with all its contents, which had been given to him by his uncle, saying that a servant of Christ should take nothing from sinners.
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I was never the cool kid in school, and loads of people told me that I was weird, that I dressed uncool and did uncool things, that I was too nice, too happy.
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That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.
