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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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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I'm a creative guy, a designer, a customer.
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Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me people's obsession with looks goes away after a while.
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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on - into the dustbin of history!
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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A lot of my music is just self-observation. Like telling you, "Oh man. What did I just do? How much did I just pay for this chain? Why did I do that? Wait a minute." Let me talk about that. Or like, the temptation. Let me talk about that. Let me observe myself.
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p. 163-4 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 15-16
