Benjamin Rush Quotes
A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
Benjamin Rush
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. Forbes
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For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.
Laura San Giacomo
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Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.
Wayne Dyer
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Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.
Larry David
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People have more dimensions to them than we give them credit for. The person you meet on the street that you think is someone, and it's someone else. I'm mistaken for someone else all the time.
Parker Posey
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I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
Cameron Mackintosh
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Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.
Patrick deWitt
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Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.
Quincy Jones
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Of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower gets credit for doing more for golf than any other White House resident, a mid- to high-handicapper though he was.
Dan Jenkins
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I've never been a Clinton fan. He's had some accomplishments, and he's very skilled at politics, but, you know, he's had some successes and a very good economy. And the question is how much or how little of that does he deserve credit for.
Hamilton Jordan
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If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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It turns out that CVS is one of about 40 merchants in a consortium that formed in 2011 to develop their own mobile-phone-based payment system. The consortium, called the Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX, is in large part all about eliminating, or at least reducing, the fees banks charge retailers for swiping credit cards.
Walt Mossberg
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Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good – fortune.
William Hazlitt
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Life is a problem. Not merely a premiss from which we start, but a goal towards which we proceed. It is an opportunity for us not merely to get, but to attain; not simply to have, but to be. Its standard of failure or success is not outward fortune, but inward possession.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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I would wear sunglasses all the time if it wasn't looked down upon in certain situations. I always thought I'd be someone who wore sunglasses like Roy Orbison.
Laura Pergolizzi
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Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.
Will Durant
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He's a role player on our team, but I think sometimes he limits his role more than he should.
Bob Thomason
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
Benjamin Rush
