Carl Sandburg Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
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At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.
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College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I wanted to be a rock star when I grew up, or at least a singer/songwriter.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.
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Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
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Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
