Charles Alvin Beckwith (Charles Alvin ("Charlie") Beckwith) Quotes
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
Warren Spector
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The San Gabriel monument expands our natural heritage, but there is more in need of safeguarding - extraordinary places like Utah's Greater Canyonlands.
Frances Beinecke
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
Orison Swett Marden
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A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
E. W. Howe
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When I left school, I never wondered whether my apartment in New York was vulnerable to storm surges, but my three daughters have to consider the realities of extreme weather and how it may destabilize communities around the globe.
Frances Beinecke
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On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.
Q-Tip
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Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.
Edmund Hillary
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The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
C. L. R. James
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Everyone at the Hayholt had seemed obsessed with the empty ritual of power, something Miriamele had lived with for so long that it held no interest for her. It was like watching a confusing game played by bad-tempered children.
Tad Williams
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If I was a woman these days, I'd be killing motherfuckers. My handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. I would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because I would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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'You have been to the Riviera before, Georges?' said Poirot to his valet the following morning. George was an intensely English, rather wooden-faced individual. 'Yes, sir. I was here two years ago when I was in the service of Lord Edward Frampton.' 'And to-day,' murmured his master, 'you are here with Hercule Poirot. How one mounts in the world!'
Agatha Christie
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The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever.
Adam Smith