Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.
Barack Obama -
I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
Patrick Modiano -
It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.
Donald Trump -
Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
Mark Twain -
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain
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If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain -
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark Twain -
It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
Mark Twain -
Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain -
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain -
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain -
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain -
What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.
David McCandless -
The first weekend after the attacks of September 11, George W. Bush had a meeting at Camp David with his top advisors, including Colin Powell, the secretary of state. And there was a lively debate about Iraq policy, in which some people from the Pentagon were arguing that the war against terrorism should include Saddam Hussein.
Elaine Sciolino
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My personal religion enables me to serve my countrymen without hurting the English or, for that matter, anybody else.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Mark Twain -
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln -
I was a grill cook at McDonalds for a little bit. I did landscape for a little bit. I played a lot in the bar scene, I played countless sets of acoustic songs in that arena.
Aaron Lewis Staind -
Shoob-be-doo-be-doo-da-day.
Stevie Wonder