Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
Quotes to Explore
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.
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America is the world of peace and must be made the continent of its definite consequence.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
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When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.
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I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
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India is a country with huge potential, and it remains an attractive high priority market for PepsiCo. We believe we have only scratched the surface of long term growth opportunities that exist for PepsiCo and our partners.
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What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.
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In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'
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It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.
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It feels so good to tell the truth.
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Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
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I like having curves - I'm proud of them!
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There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it.
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I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.
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It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.
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Everyone that I've talked to who's been to space has thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and what you often hear them say is: It was great, but we just had to come home.
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There is no hope for my life if I am ever returned to Belize.
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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
