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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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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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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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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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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The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
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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 don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.
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I'm a fan of records. I'm a fan of listening to something cover to cover and not wanting to skip over anything.
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Peace of mind is the basis of a healthy body and a healthy mind; so peace of mind, a calm mind, is very, very important.
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All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.
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When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.
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p. 163-4 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 15-16
