Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
Quotes to Explore
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
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Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.
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The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.
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It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
