Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Broadway is really my life.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
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I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
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Once we decided to do a tower in New York, it had to say something about our group, reflecting the mix of modernity and creativity in our organization. It's a symbol.
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Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
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Power and speed be hands and feet.
