Lincoln Steffens Quotes
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I am a very selfish person.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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The Muslims wanted to reign over the whole of Mostar, then gain ground to the sea and finally create an Islamic state. That is what our Croatians defend themselves against.
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
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The NFL does a great job of taking care of the players.
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I love satire. Evelyn Waugh is one of my favorite writers of all time. He's hilarious. He's so wicked. He's so great. On the other hand, pure satire is an imitation. It doesn't really have any heart. It only holds things up to ridicule.
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If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.
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We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
