Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • World
  • Age
  • Popular

• Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Real
  • Past
  • Giving

• Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Same
  • Data

• You come in to work, put that game face on, leave your problems at home, stay strong.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Work
  • Home
  • Game

• I think that God prepared me for Chris's death in some ways, because I've seen other people lose their spouses. I've known for a long time that life isn't fair.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Most of Planned Parenthood's work focuses on health care for low-income women: things like screenings for breast cancer and diabetes, and family planning.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Men
  • Professional
  • Happens

• The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am ready to take it just as it is written, and to stand by it with all my heart.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • Heart
  • Course
  • Proclamation

• And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • God
  • Political

• To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Challenge
  • Artist
  • Look

• Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Career
  • City
  • Start

• There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Writer
  • Only
  • Unemployment

• We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Society

• I've personally demanded that tyrants let their people go. I've tried to feed the hungry, clothe the poor, protect the elderly and infirm, and defend the needy from the aggressively greedy. I've led a blessed life. What a kick for a kid from the projects.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Life
  • Blessed

• I've since become really good at overwhelming myself.

  

  Dan Deacon
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  • Become

• The idea of 24-hour news, if you really step back, is pretty insane. Just even saying '24-hour news' almost has satire laced in it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Pretty
  • News
  • Saying

• You're measured by championships no matter what.

  

  Candace Parker
  • You
  • Matter
  • Championships

• Better, the perfect, easy discipline of the swallows dip and swoop, without east or west.

  

  Gary Snyder
  • Perfect
  • Discipline

• The game must be played, and played their way, though they made all the rules and had all the skill. His ineptitude did not matter. His honesty did. He was staked now totally on one belief: that an honest man cannot be cheated, that truth, if the game be played through right to the end, will lead to truth.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Truth
  • Game
  • Honesty

• I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Reading
  • College
  • Library

• There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.

  

  Drew Houston
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I never liked to say any trash talk about anyone, and I never go low on that level.

  

  Mirko Cro Cop
  • Never
  • Anyone
  • Trash

• We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it.

  

  Brian Griese

• The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson