Edward Joseph Young Quotes
Leisure is pain; takes off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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Healthcare is a very complicated business and you need a very different business model to be successful in India; yet at a global level, there are a lot of challenges and opportunities.
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I really love learning and working long hours.
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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.
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Small habits well pursued betimesMay reach the dignity of crimes.
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…for thy huggest thy bolster, which men call a Dutch wife in some parts.
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Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.
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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.
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When I was at school, I auditioned for the school play as Queen Gertrude, and I fell in love with it there and then.
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When your lips get dry, is there anything more frantic?
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.
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Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential and generate more public welfare.
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When you get older, your skin tone changes; your hair probably changes colour, whether you dye it or not, and you just can't wear the colours you used to like anymore.
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Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.
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The fact that people can predict gravity wave sources that are within shouting distance makes me feel incredibly confident. Compared to monopoles, these sources are not just optimistic thinking.
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One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one's version matches up 100% with other people's, even if it's three or four people on a conference call.
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Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.
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Friendship was another illusion like love, though it did not reach the same mad heights. People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances.
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Leisure is pain; takes off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!
