Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Damon Galgut
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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.
Walter Smith
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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.
Aaron Staton
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I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.
Adam D'Angelo
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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.
Saint Ignatius
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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.
Warren Rudman
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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The more you are a victim of contradictory impulses, the less you know which to yield to. To lack character - precisely that and nothing more.
Emil Cioran
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I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasn't heard of England.
Peter James
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The first book I bought with my own money as a teenager was Martin Amis's 'Money.' You know that thing when you read a book and you think, 'I'm going to have to read every word ever written by this man.'
John Niven
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Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time.
Hilary Mantel
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
