William H. Prescott Quotes
Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.
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In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
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You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
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Little things please little minds.
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The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
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I am an Apple guy. I got the iPhone 4 the day it came out. I have a MacBook.
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A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.
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I consider myself black.
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It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
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Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.
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A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent. Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.
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'Certifiably Jonathan' contrives crises for its subject - a bid to get his paintings into MOMA, among others.
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I'm definitely not a supermodel, a thousand per cent.
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At TechStars, I have the privilege of working with hundreds of the best and brightest start-up mentors on the planet. We coach our mentors to take a Socratic approach and to provide data rather than decisions.
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I do want to lose weight. But not because anyone is telling me to do it.
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I know if I'm lost in the moment or not.
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I think the philosophy that you have to have if you travel frequently is, stuff is just stuff. Even if it has some sentimental or family connection, if you lose it in the world, it's still just a thing, and I think if you don't have that attitude, you will get incredibly stressed out and not enjoy your travels.
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A people's speech is the skin of its culture.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.
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Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.
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Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigorously proscribed by law, the law, and not the man, must have the credit of the conduct.
