Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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You never grow out of high school sadly.
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I'd love to drive a Bugatti - something totally ridiculous but super fast.
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One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.
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I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.
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There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE Indian school system and thus, my younger brother Ishmeet and I were put in an all-boys CBSE school. My mother could move out only if she wore a burkha.
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Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the world, it's obvious that every actor would want to do an English film and explore himself.
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Incentive schemes, whereby people who have done the most good for humanity are rewarded 20 years into the future, would create the expectation that doing long-term good is valuable.
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I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
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One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.
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I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
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Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
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We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there.
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
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Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.
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I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a little' of my time that five minutes of the wrong kind of distraction can ruin a working day.
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You have to practice until you die.
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President Yar'Adua can rule from anywhere in the World.
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Urban farming appeals to people on the right and the left. People have different reasons for getting into it. Some people are like doomsdayers, they think there's going to be some horrible catastrophe and how will we survive? And then there's people that are more like, "We want to be socialists and have communal chicken coops." It really runs the whole gamut.
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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
