Harry Browne Quotes
A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.
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The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
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Through school, I saw plenty of theatre my parents weren't necessarily up on. They would prefer a football game to watching 'The Nutcracker,' and that's fine. I enjoy both.
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These are all elements, but the main thing we can do in the Middle East is encourage the reformist elements.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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Whites, like ourselves, belong to our country. They are compatriots, fellow citizens... we see them as Africans.
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The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
