Henry David Thoreau Quotes
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours … In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Quotes to Explore
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
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I'm not wed to bitcoin's blockchain. I'm blockchain-agnostic.
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Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.
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When the economy's shrinking, providing jobs, spending on things like infrastructure can actually increase revenue and drive down debt. And then, there's going to be a time at which point debt has to be taken care of.
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Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses, opposition to science, hatred of liberty, spiritual bondage, the life without love or laughter.
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The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
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It helps to have a happy home life to keep up alongside your career.
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The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours … In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.
