William A. Mitchell Quotes
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
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We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!
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Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the extent to which this music circulates. It becomes possible for the - not only the young middle class men, but it becomes possible for young middle class white men and young men of other racial communities to identify with the misogyny of gangster rap.
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If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.
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Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.
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This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.
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I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth.
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People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don't want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that's it.
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All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.
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There's such an energy bounding around New York, I can't help but get swept along in it.
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I pride myself on average, not home runs.
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Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
