Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes to Explore
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
Victoria Osteen
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
Ted McGinley
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
Lady Gaga
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
Barack Obama
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
Kate Christensen
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
E. L. Doctorow
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
Orson Welles
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
Sachin Tendulkar
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
Barbara Deming
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
Samantha Harvey
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
Karen Fairchild
Little Big Town
