Charles Edward Merriam Quotes
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
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I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.
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I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us.
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.
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If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.
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It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.
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It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.
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I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.
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There are some things in this establishment that are fundamental... about which I shall deal plainly with you... the government by a single person and a parliament is a fundamental... and... though I may seem to plead for myself, yet I do not: no, nor can any reasonable man say it... I plead for this nation, and all the honest men therein.
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Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village - in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can 'Carry a Message to Garcia.'
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Rosemary was only a spinster in the strict sense of denotation. She was eminently, eminently nubile.
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Comedy doesn't always have to come from a dark place.
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The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.
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You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.
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p. 163-4 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 15-16
