Carroll Quigley Quotes
It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and far more for others than politicians spending money they didn't have to work to earn.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.
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Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.
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I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'
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There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.
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If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.
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When you feel complete, you don't need to get married, and you don't think about it.
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Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
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Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.
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Coming from a programming background, I have a good sense of what's feasible and what's not feasible in a game.
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It's cool because I think 'Ex Machina' is a little bit under the radar, which is always when I do my best work - when I feel like no one's paying attention.
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There isn't a woman alive who doesn't have problems with her body. Including me!
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I'm very interested in the human mind, what's going on in there.
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Just remember that it’s your effort that’s going to really bring it together for you…. You will be happy because you will have then realized and fulfilled the destiny. That little speck, then will have become everything because it will have merged with infinity. It will have merged with the most incredible, most indescribable thing there is!
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What place do we occupy in the 'universe'? A point, if that! Why reproach ourselves when we are evidently so insignificant? Once we make this observation, we grow calm at once: henceforth, no more bother, no more frenzy, metaphysical or otherwise. And then that point dilates, swells, substitutes itself for space. And everything begins all over again.
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It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.
