Leland Stanford Quotes
When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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I've always looked at 2016, but 2020 is realistic for me. I'll be 23 in 2016, but if I keep on progressing, hopefully 2016 will be a medal chance as well for me.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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I would like to be more fit, but I don't think I will put on fat or gain weight for movie roles. I am not going to do that.
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I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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Every human being experiences risks; some of the risks are common to all humans, and some are unique to the life each of us has been given to live. But I know for certain that risk – both it's shadow and its reality – has shaped my life inside and out.
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Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
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A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.
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When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal.
