Charles Edward Merriam Quotes
If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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I just can't read music.
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At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
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Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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I don't want to get fat.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back.
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In life, sometimes it pays off when you really don't give a damn.
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With ravished earsThe monarch hears;Assumes the god,Affects the nod,And seems to shake the spheres.
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Doing narration is a totally different art form. I do some video games, and some that I've done are iconic.
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If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.
