David House Quotes
People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.
Quotes to Explore
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There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.
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After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.
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A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away.
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Acts of one-sided diplomacy on the part of the Bush administration.
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To Mark's benefit, ... I think he's been really consistent with his play since we started back this year. I think he's been confident and sure.
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I will do nothing to superinduce sleep by putting myself at ease, or making myself more comfortable; if, however, in spite of my resistance I yield to my infirmity, then I deserve to be laughed at, and accept as punishment the mortification I feel.
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It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.
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Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone.
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Unconditional acceptance of others is the key to happy relationships.
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The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.
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Anyone who has crossed from the district of Bolkhov into that of Zhizdra will probably have been struck by the sharp difference between the natives of the provinces of Orel and Kaluga.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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In a real-world way, my gifts are very limited in terms of what I can do.
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Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no deep, lasting satisfaction or sense of fulfillment. The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.
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People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.
