Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Quotes to Explore
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
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Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
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It's difficult to always have to be contextualized within the careers of your parents, and it's difficult not to feel like you can stand alone, but hopefully I'll earn the ability to stand alone over time.
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God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
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If at anytime this life of ours grows feeble, or low, or lonely, I know no other remedy than to return to its Eternal Source, to God Himself; and through Him all the means of grace become again living and true; and through Him all His creatures become again near and dear and accessible.
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They've gone to the trouble to try to educate people that there is a cultural taboo there.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
