Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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I don't wanna be preached to. Unless it's in a beautiful voice, I don't want that.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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I don't know anything about music.
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I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.
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I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.
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In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
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I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups.
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We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.
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I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
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The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.
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I've used my time at 'GH' to learn some discipline.
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I used to see media on Althea Flynt and she was very wild looking. She had a mohawk and she published Hustler-I thought that was crazy. But when you study her, she was so innocent and frail and sort of birdlike, and sweet. She stayed sweet until she died, but I don't know what happened for her to get into drugs or the things she got into.
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For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.
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I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.
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Power people wear power like a coat of arms. If can't sense them on the spot you don't know what power is.
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A pre-emptive war in 'defense' of freedom would surely destroy freedom, because one simply cannot engage in barbarous action without becoming a barbarian, because one cannot defend human values by calculated and unprovoked violence without doing mortal damage to the values one is trying to defend.
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I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.
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The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.
