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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What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.
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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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Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
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[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!
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Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.
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People find it very, very difficult to believe what I've done. Scientists have seen my work and they can't explain it. Even nano-scientists have seen it and been totally shocked. But if any man on Earth wants to challenge me, I'm ready. Bring it on.
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Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.
