Walter Mischel Quotes
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.
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I am a Zionist.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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My definition is that geo-enlightenment is understanding the interconnectedness of things.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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I spend five times more money at a chemist shop than I would at a fashion boutique. Clothes shopping is optional for me; shopping at a chemist store is a must.
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My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles from a young age.
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You have to continue to grow and evolve as individuals in order for your marriage to evolve. It takes two pillars to support a structure. If those two pillars become one, you have a structure that teeters.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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I'm not saying I like to be kicked, but it's good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.
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I go through my comments sometimes, and I'll just take snapshots of the terrible ones and send them to my friends. I know it's horrible, but they actually make me laugh. They make my day.
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Only this incident inseparable every custom must have, viz., that it be consonant to reason; for how long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
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When two sympatric, closely related species appear to have very similar needs, we may ask whether mechanisms exist that enable them to avoid direct competition. Implicit in this questions the presumption that two species with identical requirements cannot coexist (Gause 1934).
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One suggestion my wife and I have used in our personal finance courses we teach at college is simply writing down all expenditures and seeing where the money goes. That alone will cause heads of households to think twice about x, y or z expenditure, and to consider carefully whether they really need something or not.
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We have a lot of things we give away to people who are very, very wealthy in this country. And I'm not sure that our federal government can afford that.
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Whoever I'm playing against, I go in and try to stop their best scorer and try to get myself going on the offensive end.
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Every race is a war. Every race is a fight. If you don't go into every event with that belief, you will never achieve your goals.
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Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding.
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Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.
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And you can save more money for retirement. It’s not just about marshmallows.
