David Pye Quotes
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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Such photographs exist in every family. They were caught in a few seconds, the duration of the exposure, and these second have become an eternity.
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And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.
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Carlos is better. His range of motion improved. He pushed it hard yesterday, but we'll just have to see.
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Our yesterdays present irreparable things to us; it is true that we have lost opportunities which will never return, but God can transform this destructive anxiety into a constructive thoughtfulness for the future. Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ. Leave the Irreparable Past in His hands, and step out into the Irresistible Future with Him.
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Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!
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I want us to be judged by the impact we have on the health of the people of Africa and the health of women. Improvements in the health of the people of Africa and the health of women are key indicators of the performance of WHO. This is a health organization for the whole world... But we must focus our attention on the people in greatest need.
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If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.
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I'm not really interested in making money. That's always come as the result of success, but it's not been my goal.
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The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes.
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Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman.
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“We can never select the one result we want to the exclusion of all others.”
