William Stanley Jevons Quotes
As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.
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Age for me is just a number.
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I think that's what the most fascinating part of getting to know someone is - to see how they do things, and how their way of doing things is different from your way of doing things, and the fun of trying to do it their way and to see what value there is in looking at things from their perspective.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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Most people see through these issues but the corporate media doesn't reflect these sentiments.
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Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board.
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Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.
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As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.
