Ellen Meloy Quotes
I would like to do whatever it is that presses the essence from the hour.
Ellen Meloy
Quotes to Explore
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In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.
Adam Cohen
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Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.
Nadia Comaneci
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There will be no security in our world, no release from agonizing tension, no genuine progress, no enduring peace, until, in Shelley's fine words, 'reason's voice, loud as the voice of nature, shall have waked the nations'.
Ralph Bunche
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No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.
Ulysses S. Grant
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We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.
F. Sionil José
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The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.
Benigno Aquino III
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Syllogisms а la mode - If you are against labor racketeers, then you are against the working man. If you are against demagogues, then you are against democracy. If you are against Christianity, then you are against God. If you are against trying a can of Old Dr. Quack's Cancer Salve, then you are in favor of letting Uncle Julius die.
H. L. Mencken
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Many men and women spend their lives in unsuccessful attempts to spin the flax God sends them upon a wheel they can never use.
J. G. Holland
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Be generous with the credit for your achievements. The more other people feel that they are gaining from your success, the more they will continue to help and others will want to join in
Octavius Black
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They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.
Karl Lagerfeld
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All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.
John Lukacs
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Do not waste your faith and love on the political world, but, in the divine world of science and art, offer up your inmost being in a fiery stream of eternal creation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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So if I can give anyone advice in this business on love and balancing, it's that you truly have to take a second, step back, to figure out who you are and what you want. And it is okay if those people around you don't fit into that. Because what you don't want to do is end up living your life for someone else.
Eva Pigford
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Since Copernicus, man seems to have got himself on an inclined plane-now he is slipping faster and faster away from the center into-what? into nothingness? into a 'penetrating sense of his nothingness?' ... all science, natural as well as unnatural-which is what I call the self-critique of knowledge-has at present the object of dissuading man from his former respect for himself, as if this had been but a piece of bizarre conceit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
Confucius
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Don't insult me today just because I'm poor, you don't know what my future holds!
William Kamkwamba
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I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.
Michelle Dockery
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Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance.
Honore de Balzac
