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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Debra Stephenson and I are nothing more than friends and have a close working relationship - we certainly have not had an affair.
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While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe.
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Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.
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Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
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People are entitled to their opinion. I respect them, but it doesn't mean they're right.
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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.
