Bernard of Chartres Quotes
We are like dwarfs the moderns sitting on the shoulders of giants the ancients. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than theirs. It is not because our sight is sharper nor our height greater than theirs; it is that we are carried and elevated by the high stature of the giants.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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I definitely move to the beat of my own drummer and man, he's not playing something anyone has heard before. It's pretty cool, though. Pretty cool.
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We are seeing entrepreneurs issuing their own blockchain-based tokens to raise money for their networks, sidestepping the traditional, exclusive world of venture capital altogether. The importance of this cannot be overstated - in this new world, there are no companies, just protocols.
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I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
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I've always wanted to make records that rock like hell. But also, I've never wanted to compromise that Country place deep inside.
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Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
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I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it 'depression' than calling it 'loneliness.'
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Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.
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It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
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An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.
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I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
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To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.
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The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
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I admire my father greatly.
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs.
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We are like dwarfs the moderns sitting on the shoulders of giants the ancients. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than theirs. It is not because our sight is sharper nor our height greater than theirs; it is that we are carried and elevated by the high stature of the giants.
