Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
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'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
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I feel naked without jewelry. If I'm having a bad hair day, I pick something from my huge collection of hats.
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Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.
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I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.
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Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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Big nations should not bully smaller ones. Disputes should be resolved peacefully.
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Mere chance … alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
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Senior academic condemns ‘deluded’ supporters of GM food as being ‘anti-science’ and ignoring evidence of dangers (4 March 2015)
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When you jerk off, you’re saying 'Hey, I care about me.'
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My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom's death.
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At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.
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People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.
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I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened.
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A body that doesn't move mentally or physically dies.
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In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.
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Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.
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You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.
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The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
