Alexander Meiklejohn Quotes
There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. For part of my life, I was living in Detroit, and I remember a friend of mine commenting she could always tell when I had been speaking to my mother because my New York accent had come back.
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Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I'm very much afraid that you will never really see the point.
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History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.
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Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no matter where they're from, have been trying to understand this world of ours.
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There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is.
