Edmund Waller Quotes
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
Edmund Waller
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Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
Dan Rosensweig
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I really hate to write.
Jack Kerouac
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
Ira Sachs
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People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.
Randy Moss
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
Sam Shepard
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
Dan Pink
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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
Thomas Carlyle
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Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
Adolphe Monod
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
Walter Salles
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
Edmund Waller
