Liberty Hyde Bailey Quotes
Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
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I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?
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It's really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.
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Facing a landscape annihilated by the light, to remain serene supposes a temper I do not have. The sun is my purveyor of black thoughts; and summer the season when I have always reconsidered my relations with this world and with myself, to the greatest prejudice of both.
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The education cuts in the President's budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.
Chaka Fattah -
No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.
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Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
