Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
It may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?
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I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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To rebuild this country will take a long time but we have the mandate and the people support us.
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No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.
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Sonata form could not be defined until it was dead. Czerny claimed with pride around 1840 that he was the first to describe it, but then it was already part of history.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
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Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
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It may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?
