Ralph Waite Quotes
The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.

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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Some films shouldn't be remade.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
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I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that.
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The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
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If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after 30 years you may please even your guru, but you must practice for many more years before you finally become a true artist-then you may please even God.
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A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the last one hundred years shows that for the first fifty years, 1920-1970, baseball players held a steady multiple of about 3.4 times the national average income.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.