William R. Ferris Quotes
We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive of the word Southern. And a symbol like the confederate flag indicates white only are allowed into that world. And removing the Confederate flag from public view to the pages of history is long overdue.
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To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
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I don't want to be a Major League coach.
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I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
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We are here to make another world.
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The single biggest resource India has is people and skill.
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It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.
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My parents did everything possible. My dad has worked from eight in the morning until nine in the evening to make it possible so I can play tennis. We had to cancel tournaments because we couldn't afford to go there.
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It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.
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There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.
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I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
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Don't play his game. Play yours.
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I strongly believe that American farmers and businesses can compete with anyone in the world if they are given a level playing field.
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A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.
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All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
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How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
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I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.
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I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.
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We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
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I believe the greatest blessing God can send a man, is disappointment, rightly met and used...You are quite certain, my friend, as you go on through life, to have to make up your mind to failure and disappointment on your own part, and to seeing other men preferred before you...The only way not to be disappointed when a thing turns out against you, is not to have really cared how the thing went.
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
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People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.
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My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.
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We have, for generations, been trying to be more inclusive of the word Southern. And a symbol like the confederate flag indicates white only are allowed into that world. And removing the Confederate flag from public view to the pages of history is long overdue.
