Ben Carson Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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Think and grow rich.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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I suffer the mortification of seeing myself attacked right and left by people at home professing patriotism and love of country who never heard the whistle of a hostile bullet. I pity them and the nation dependent on such for its existence. I am thankful, however that, though such people make a great noise, the masses are not like them.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
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Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.
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...and he is as eitherhanded as a spider,...
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Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like.
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Ulta is a great place for our vendor partners to experience growth.
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Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt-by forgetting.
