Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
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I don't even want to touch on the topic of black quarterback, because I think this game is bigger than black, white or even green.
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I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.
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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
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The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring.
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The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge.
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Idealism is based on big ideas. And, as anybody who has ever been asked 'What's the big idea?' knows, most big ideas are bad ones.
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Then he tried to recall the lessons of Mr. Wisdom. 'it is I myself, eternal Spirit, who drives this Me, the slave, along that ledge. I ought not to care whether he falls and breaks his neck or not. It is not he that is real, it is I – I – I.
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People always say 'Don't you support the troops?' But the troops are an entity that just follows orders. It's not about individuals or people. So when I say 'I don't support the troops', I'm saying I don't support the bankers and politicians who are making them do what they do.
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If you're not angry, you're just stupid, or you don't care.
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Kisses sweeter than Tupelo honey.Little bit crazy like New Orleans.Memphis blue and Daytona sunny.Soft as cotton in some cut-off jeans.Don't you know, ain't nothing in the whole wide world like a Southern girl.
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That'll be the day - when you say goodbye.That'll be the day - when you make me cry.You say you're gonna leave - you know it's a lie, 'causeThat'll be the day when I die.
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Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - 'Silver Bells' and 'Follow the Stars Home.'
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Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.
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I'd love to be on a show like 'ER.' Just watching it is like, 'Phew.' I loved watching 'Veronica Mars.' 'Buffy' was a big... I loved 'Buffy.' I would go out of my way to watch 'Buffy.'
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No doubt, there are those who believe that judges - and particularly dissenting judges - write to hear themselves say, as it were, 'I, I, I.' And no doubt, there are also those who believe that judges are, like Joan Didion, primarily engaged in the writing of fiction. I cannot agree with either of those propositions.
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Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
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Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
