Elihu Burritt Quotes
Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.Elihu Burritt
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
Nan Hayworth -
As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
Mandy Patinkin -
A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
Sam Keen -
People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and also conduct interviews on my show. I have grown as a person and an artiste.
Kapil Sharma -
If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
Jackie Chan -
I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
R. Kelly -
Yes, well I had all my serious illnesses in late middle age. And now I'm just stuck, I'm afraid.
V. S. Pritchett -
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
C. S. Lewis -
Power is winning the battle over who owns the customer: the brand or the retailer.
Leonard Lauder -
If you develop a product that gets what the customer is trying to get done, you don't have to advertise; people will just pull it into their lives.
Clayton Christensen -
One of the reasons that our colleges have gotten so expensive is because of tenure.
Carlos Beruff
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I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.
Matthew Perry -
Twombly, frankly, was an acquired taste. I was not in love with Twombly the first time I saw one of his paintings.
Eli Broad -
I'm not a confrontational person in real life, so I really don't wanna get into arguments or fistfights with people I'm making fun of.
Andy Kindler -
I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
John Irving -
I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.
Kenzaburo Oe -
I never expected to write a book about a slum in Ireland that was going to catapult me, as they say, into some kind of - onto the best seller list.
Frank McCourt
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No black man wants a blue-eyed black child, and no white man wants a kinky-haired white child. Nature didn't mean it to be that way.
Muhammad Ali -
They dream in Courtship, but in Wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope -
I have likewise made many 'skies' and effects - for I wish it could be said of me as Fuselli says of Rembrandt, 'he followed nature in her calmest abodes and could pluck a flower on every hedge - yet he was born to cast a steadfast eye on the bolder phenomena of nature'... We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & color.
John Constable -
I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.
William Carey Jones -
What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.
Wallace Stevens -
Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.
Elihu Burritt