Edward Noyes Westcott Quotes
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To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
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I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
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Fine art is really something I want to get into.
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
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Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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We are not going to continue until we hear the fucking roof rattle.
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Fun without sell gets nowhere, but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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Coincidence is logical.
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How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?
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I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa.
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Too many things on my mind, said Wilbur. Well, said the goose, that's not my trouble. I have nothing at all on my mind, but I've too many things under my behind.
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The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.
