Henry David Thoreau Quotes
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Quotes to Explore
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
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Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.
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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
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It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.
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All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
