Ed Acker Quotes
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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Salesmen always need something to sell.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick -
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.
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But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.
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Once you get hooked on the airline business, it's worse than dope.
