Charles Dickens Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
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As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.
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I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.
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It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.
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If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.
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Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it was top down, it was based on experts, and it was big-picture.
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We must not believe those, who today, with philosophical bearing and deliberative tone, prophesy the fall of culture and accept the ignorabimus. For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be:
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Real friends stab you in the front.
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Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.
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Fear must rule in a despotism.
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Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.
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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.
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This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.
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My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.
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For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.
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It's not about one person doing one big thing ... It's about a lot of people doing small things that really make the difference.
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Technology has changed things, same as everywhere. But the economy has changed drastically. When Jamaica first won independence, our dollar was stronger than the U.S. dollar. Now ours is about 90 to one. That's had a big impact on crime and poverty.
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You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
