Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
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Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
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The recognition of rights for women and minorities became a large part of my understanding of what this country is all about.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.
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I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
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I've never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn't have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven't worked on a lot of shows.
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One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I think now I'll probably take a few days off and enjoy the competition and then sit down with a few people and work out what is next, work out what the next preparation will be and what competition will be next.
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Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them.
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Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.
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Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.
