Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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This fanaticism is what feeds terrorism. And this is precisely why Muslims must play an active role in opposing hate sermons and incitement to terrorism and extremism in their mosques.
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
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Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.
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We don't have an identity as far as how we play on the defensive end. We always score, so it's obvious our problem is in other areas.
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When I wanted to serve my country, I was forced to hide the most basic and human aspect of my life and my identity from the people to whom I was supposed to be the closest - and with whom I had to trust my life. I also had to hide from myself.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
