Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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In nature there are few sharp lines.
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Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.
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I am going to be a great actress.
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When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
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The gods are immortal men, and men are mortal gods.
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Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
