Elizabeth Wein Quotes
She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.
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The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
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Our life is full of empty space.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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Timid salesmen have skinny kids.
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O Banner!Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them;You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money;May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast.
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This is near enough true bliss.
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
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It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
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I'm very into Zodiac signs, so when I meet a fellow Scorpio, I always get really excited.
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I've been lucky in the sense that I haven't become famous.
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You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.
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Everything I was told should be my greatest insecurities and weaknesses, everything that I've been labeled - short, nerdy, skinny, weak, impulsive, ugly, tomboy, poor, rebel, loud, freak, crazy - turned out to be my greatest strengths. I didn't become successful in spite of them. I became successful because of them.
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Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times.
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Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
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I don't know if I have a memory of not thinking I was a writer - it goes that far back. I went to law school because I didn't know how to earn a living otherwise. I tried to ignore the pull, but it wouldn't let me.
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I give Cronkite a whole lot of credit.
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Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
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She was never so petty. She did not dabble with minnows at the surface when there were thirty-pound salmon swimming deeper down.
