Cass Canfield (Augustus Cass Canfield) Quotes
A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.
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Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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If people are worried, if they're fearful, if they feel a sense of grievance or that they're not being treated properly or that they're not being paid fairly, what you're going to have is you're going to have people doing the minimum amount of work necessary to not get fired, and not a peppercorn more.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
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Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.
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Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
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You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor.
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I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.
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Never mind the transience of show business and popularity. When we hear Ray Charles, we go, 'That's a great singer.' You don't need a reporter or a writer to tell us. Good is good and it should shine through the years.
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I haven't figured out why people like what they like. I don't know. I wish I did. I could sell that to everybody, man, and be a millionaire.
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Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.
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The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
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Don't mess with my kids again. I will look past it once because I do believe its my fault. But if you touch my kids one more time, then you'll be in danger too.
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I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.
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The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.
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Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.
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To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.
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May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence
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Once you start a war, you have to win.
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I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States.
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A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
