Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
Nancy Astor
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
Ralph Lauren
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
Mandy Patinkin
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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
Edmund Husserl
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Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing... you're never going to hit any!
Taylor Hicks
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The enduring assumption that human behaviour is governed by innate morality and reason is at odds with the persistence of human deprivation, inequality, injustice, misery, brutality and conflict.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
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Did I suffer from depression? Yes, a little, from time to time. Yes. … I'm not as depressed as I was. I get depressed now and then but not very much anymore. … At the height of it it was just God-awful. It was really bad.
Brian Wilson
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When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.
Mary Beard
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You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.
Matthew Desmond
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When I speak, I want to ensure that there is at least one person in the audience who leaves the room transformed.
Bernice King
