Ben Nelson Quotes
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Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.
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As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
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My career is an open book, but my life is not.
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One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.
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You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
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My only requirement for life is that I don't get stuck in a rut.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.
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Many support what I am doing.
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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
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You shouldn't have one opinion when you're running and another when you're president.
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Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.
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‘She is a goddess,’ said Ambrose, drunkenly and stoutly. ‘…And she wants me. She’s the pursuer…She’s the epitome of woman, not,’ he said, ‘not a second-hand bundle of coy erogeneity draped,’ he said, ‘in an all-too-diaphanous robe,’ he said, ‘of pudeur.’
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Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
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Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?
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Cuando rompo algunas de las cadenas que me encadenan, siento que me disminuyo.
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I love dark chocolate. I love it.
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We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.
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I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.
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If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you could do are the infrastructure bank and a simple SBA-like loan guarantee for all building retrofits, where the contractor or the energy-service company guarantees the savings. So that allows the bank to loan money to let a school or a college or a hospital or a museum or a commercial building unencumbered by debt to loan it on terms that are longer, so you can pay it back only from your utility savings. You could create a million jobs doing that.
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I always start with emotion. That's where I start all of my improvisations, on the piano. I always start with the mood or the feel of where I am in that moment.
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Writing the history of the present is always a very different thing from writing the history of the distant past. The history of the distant past depends entirely on literary and documentary sources; the history of the present always involves unwritten material as well as documents. But the difference was much greater in the days of Thucydides than it is now.
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When George Washington was elected president, there was no national vote.
