George Hearst Quotes

You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.

George Hearst

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• Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.

  

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• To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

  

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  • Truth
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  • Exterior

• I think you're very lucky to find somebody you can coexist with without straying or going mad or being angry. That's whether you're Liam Gallagher and Nicole Appleton, Robbie Williams and Ayda Field, or Tim and June from down the road.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
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• Main Street has too much debt already. It is simply a bonanza for speculators who can borrow the overnight money and then buy something that they can speculate on.

  

  David Stockman
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• I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance.

  

  Catherine McCormack
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• My whole career has been an act of revenge.

  

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• In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Believe
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• He held her for a minute, then two, then three, simply holding her and committing to memory what he could not have in life.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Life
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• Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It should be good for the wealth of the nation, and that is when it acts as little as possible upon the labor that produces it and when it consumes as little as possible. It should be good for the public security, and that is when it protects as much as possible, provided that the protection does not cost more than it brings in.... It is in losing their powers of action that governments improve. Each time that the governed gain space there is progress.

  

  Augustin Thierry
  • Action
  • Government
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• This wasn’t a case of gilding the lily. If there was a lily underneath all that, it had long since been crushed to a pulp. The party stopped in its tracks as she took off her cloak, frozen in wordless contemplation of a wardrobe that made the word “gaudy” sound sweet and demure by contrast.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Party
  • Wardrobe
  • Cloak

• You are less majestically neutral than cloaking your cowardice in principle.

  

  George Hearst
  • Cowardice
  • Cloak
  • Neutral