Leland Stanford Quotes
The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I try to be a smart quarterback. I'm not the fastest or the best athlete, but if I can know what the defense is doing and stick to my job and what needs to be done I can make the plays needed to move the ball and score.
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The production of wealth is the result of agreement between labor and capital, between employer and employed. Its distribution, therefore, will follow the law of its creation, or great injustice will be done.
