Lincoln Steffens Quotes
Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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I know what poverty is.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I want to be a major force.
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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You've gotta believe in yourself, and you just have to work harder at it than you've ever worked at anything before in your life. And if you keep doing that and keep believing in yourself, great things do happen.
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The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.
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Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.
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Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don’t focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.
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The richest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren’t particularly smart or rich.… That leaves me making music. But we can’t talk about that.
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Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.
