Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.
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But there are other parts of what we do here as college students and on a college team that also need to be fulfilled.
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The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.
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I'm very much a person of nurture over nature. When the world is not nurturing, it can really change a man.
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Most of our physical education teachers were just teachers, and they had to do the extra stuff on their own. I remember very vividly that they would hold a cane pole between two of the students down low, and we would all jump over it. And they would raise it and raise it and raise it.
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
