Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I think the biggest challenge we faced in making 'The September Issue' was the fact that people in the fashion world are very suspicious of cameras. They're used to a camera being the enemy, something that is prying and looking to catch you in a compromising position, something that's judging you.
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Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.
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You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.
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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
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When you're doing a medieval show like 'Pillars,' it starts off a bit like a school play. You're all in funny costumes; you've had your coffee, and you say, 'Good morning'. Then you go on set and, if you've got good actors and directors, it takes on a life of its own.
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It always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.
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I got shot. I always felt like I'd be shot. Somebody was trying to do me some harm because a lot of people don't like me. But I didn't think it was gonna happen at that particular moment.
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The meaning of a question is the method of answering it: then what is the meaning of 'Do two men really mean the same by the word 'white'?' Tell me how you are searching, and I will tell you what you are searching for.
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Yet the whole structure of the common law is an obvious denial of this theory; it stands as a monument slowly raised, like a coral reef, from the minute accretions of past individuals, of whom each built upon the relics which his predecessors left, and in his turn left a foundation upon which his successors might work.
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I journal at the end of every day and just keep track of how things are going.
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If someone throws you in a pool and you can't swim, you're going to struggle.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged on Wall Street that original research is on life support. Serious research can be bad for business, as well as expensive.
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Digital media are biased toward replication and storage. Our digital photos practically upload and post themselves on Facebook, and our most deleted e-mails tend to resurface when we least expect it. Yes, everything you do in the digital realm may as well be broadcast on prime-time television and chiseled on the side of the Parthenon.
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My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.
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It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.
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I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.
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I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.
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The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do.
