Edward Everett Quotes
You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was 'the scourge of God.'
Quotes to Explore
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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When you see results, you start to wonder, 'What would happen if I had oatmeal instead of sausage for breakfast?' You start to eat better because you feel better.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
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All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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May we remain connected in love. We are one.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart: like a nursery story, its validity rests on exact repetition, so that it comes around every time as the evocation of one's whole life and particularly of the most distant bits of it in childhood.
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It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.
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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
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System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy.
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You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was 'the scourge of God.'
