Edmund Morgan Quotes
Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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Nothing keeps its promise.
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Spend 10% of the project budget making sure you understand problem, the key technologies involved, and have looked at all of the options before you dive into the detailed design.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
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'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
