David Landes Quotes
Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
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Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns
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Love is the only thing that makes the world spin around, I think. It's weird. We have to call it "love," because we have to call it something, but it's not a word. It's an energy. It's an act. It's an action. It's a natural thing.
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He shoots the ball extremely well from the perimeter, which will help our low-post players, ... He is a veteran who brings both playoff experience and leadership.
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Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.
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We're always making progress, every day, ... Sometimes it's inches. Sometimes it's feet. Sometimes it's backward.
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A lot of companies are calling for availability, but we're committed to FEMA.
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You have to go through ups and downs. Mistakes turn into lessons.
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Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.
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Never give your sweetie all your heart, what heart will you have left in the end, and what would you do?
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Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.
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When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.
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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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Journalism is nine-tenths being in the right places at the right time.
