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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I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.
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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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I do no think human beings ever came through such a month as we have…We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Never underestimate the incompetence of government.
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Transvaluation of values,” a term derived from Nietzsche (who derided Christianity’s embrace of the weak), is the heart of Niebuhr’s perspective on the cross.
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People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.
