Willis R. Whitney Quotes
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
Willis R. Whitney
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Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash.
Karl Marx
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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
C. S. Lewis
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What you want, Honey you've got it. And what you need, Baby you've got it. All I'm askingIs for a little respect when I come home.
Otis Redding
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Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.
Cyril Connolly
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Men always tell such silly lies.
Agatha Christie
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There are no fights in Ireland, people just get so drunk they go, 'GODDAMN, YA SONOFABITCH!' and pass out. And there's no Alcoholics Anonymous there, because if there's a meeting, it's always at the bar,
Lewis Black
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I don't think there is rivalry between the teams in Brazil. We each do our jobs, and we each have our part in MMA.
Anderson Silva
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I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.
Matthew Perry
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You can't ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody else's energy. You have to own your thing, or own it with very fiber of your being.
Billy Porter
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Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
Channing Pollock
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If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.
Peter Drucker
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
Tara Brach
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So many people pass up older dogs, which is a shame. With an older dog, you know what you are getting.
Lisa Jakub
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There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.
George Eliot
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Keep your eye on the ball.
Ford Frick
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Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.
Janis Ian
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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
Willis R. Whitney
