Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
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It is proper to ask for sorrow with Christ in sorrow, anguish with Christ in anguish, tears and deep grief because of the great affliction Christ endures for me.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.
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Laughter crosses boundaries of class and age... Humour is universal.
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I'm a huge 'Call of Duty' fan, 'Minecraft' and all those kinds of video games. I'm constantly playing video games every day.
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Even when I read a book, if the book leaves me the possibility of finding certain solutions or working on my own toward a solution, I prefer that much more than if the book fills me with the answers, gives them to me directly.
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For my generation - the "Children of Nixon," as I call us in the book - the Lebanese civil war was an iconic event. Downtown Beirut became a metaphor for so many things: man's inhumanity to man, what Charles Bukowski called "the impossibility of being human." It shaped our perceptions of war and human nature, just as Vietnam did for our parents. We used it to understand how the world works.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
