Elbert Hubbard Quotes
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You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
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I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.
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I'm a Midwestern girl, born and bred. It's harder for some of us to write about things closer to home. It's not so much a fear of telling the truth but wanting to do it justice.
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I'm just trying to blur this very clear line we've drawn and are drawing over and over and over again between communities. Saying those are queer films and those are films. I would love for that line to disappear. For that frontier to be abolished once and for all.
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I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi.
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He calls his extravagance, generosity; and his trusting everybody, universal benevolence.
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This Court now concludes that independent political expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.
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I joined the 800th MP Brigade when they were already deployed.
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How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
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Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.
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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
