Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.
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I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
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I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.
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I would have never gotten to college if it hadn't been for getting up at 4 A.M. and milking them Holsteins.
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The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our own fanatical times the critical spirit should tend to disappear.
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People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.
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Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.
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There is, of course, provision for consultation of the record by the usual scheme of indexing. If the user wishes to consult a certain book, he taps its code on the keyboard, and the title page of the book promptly appears before him, projected onto one of his viewing positions.
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Poems get to the point where they are stronger than you are. They come up from some other depth and they find a place on the page. You can never find that depth again, that same kind of authority and voice. I might feel I would like to change something about them, but they’re still stronger than I am and I cannot.
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Electric eels I might add do it, Though it shocks 'em I know...
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There is nothing like walking on the streets on a freezing cold day and hearing fans scream your name, then stopping to talk to those same fans. There is nothing like looking into the crowd at the Q and seeing over 20,000 people wearing wigs to match your hair. Those are feelings I will cherish for the rest of my life and never forget.
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I know exercise is important, but I hate it!
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My hair can get quite dry, so I condition it in olive oil once a week.
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If we were to underrun our inflation objective over a period of time that we tried to increase interest rates, I think that would be worrisome.
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It is well to start by distinguishing the few really great - the major novelists who count in the same way as the major poets, in the sense that they not only change the possibilities of the art for practitioners and readers, but that they are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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Now it feels like no one ever left me out in the rain, cold words still remain unspoken.And I never got lost, spent years in the dark.You're here, now my heart's unbroken.When I see you smile, fill my soul again, and I'm unbroken.
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Genius never desires what does not exist.
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Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.
