Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
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You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.
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While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.
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You picked the right road, even though it is the most difficult. That is the essence of heroism.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
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Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.
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I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it.
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No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.
