Eric Ries Quotes
Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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I've never been fired in my life.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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I don't have a complex mind.
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Keep to the middle if you wish to keep moderation. The mid way is the safe way. Moderation abides in the mean, and moderation is virtue. Every abiding place outside the bounds of moderation is only exile to the wise man.
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Fingir é conhecer-se.
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To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and 'rich' and 'wicked' are almost synonymous terms.
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Directing an austere look at Tubby’s receding back, she spoke in a cold crisp voice which sounded in the drowsy stillness like ice tinkling in a pitcher.
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Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.
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The interesting thing about doing serial television is that the character is growing separate from you, the character and the show are growing, and you get to observe that and participate with it in a way that I think is actually really exciting for an actor.
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My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.
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I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.
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Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.
