Ethel M. Dell Quotes
Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.
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I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.
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In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network.
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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
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The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.
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There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?'
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I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance.
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Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do.
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When I belonged to Jobbik, I didn't wear a kippa and I didn't light Hannukah candles.
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It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.
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For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.
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If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.
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You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
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If you do not believe in co-operation, look what happens to a wagon that loses a wheel.
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But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.
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Lightnin' Hopkins taught us, "the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel" and Muddy Waters taught us "you don't have to be the best one; just be a good 'un" .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good 'un.
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The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking ahead.
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Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.
