Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
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The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.
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The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom meant to me. I couldn't imagine being in this world without her. But then seeing cancer - seeing what it can do to somebody - as strong and as tough as she was, there was nothing she could do. Cancer is a dirty, dirty deal.
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I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.
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Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.
