Charles Edward Merriam Quotes
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.
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I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.
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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
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I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think people are sensitive to it. I have been painted as being this right-wing zealot on choice. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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My husband is a composer, so he plays piano all the time and I sit there and clap telling my unborn child, 'Hear me clap, hear the music.' I know music, in general, is supposed to be good for babies to hear.
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United States! the ages plead, - Present and Past in under-song, - Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
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Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.
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Remember this- that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
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As a general rule, whatever Europe is now doing, we should do the opposite - for our very survival in an increasingly scary world.
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He marvelled again at the effect of projection: how hostile Henry had seemed to him when Patrick was hostile towards everyone; how considerate he seemed now that Patrick had no argument with him. What would it be like to stop projecting? Was it possible at all?
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I'm not your typical quarterback. I don't like when people say, 'Quarterbacks aren't supposed to run,' or, 'Quarterbacks aren't supposed to work out a certain way.'
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My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.
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Desire is normal. Attention is normal, and that's okay.
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I love the game, it's the greatest game on earth, that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.
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Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.
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The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new.
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I am more creative when I don't have sex.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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I look at what we have - our traditional natural resource base - as helping move us to that cleaner, more diverse energy supply.
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p. 163 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 15-16
