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.
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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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There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.
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In der Jugend lernt, im Alter versteht man.
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It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we were more willing to accept each other's depravity we'd be more united, we'd be more honest. If you hide two things from me, I'll assume you're hiding a million. And I'll keep you at a distance. I'm not afraid of the evil in you. It's in me too.
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After a year and six months, it's no longer me that you want. But, I love you so much it hurts. Never mistreated you once; I poured my heart out to you. Let down my guard, swear to God. I'll blow my brains in your lap, lay here and die in your arms. Drop to my knees and I'm pleading; I'm trying to stop you from leaving. You won't even listen, so...
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What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.
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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.
