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 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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I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I'd just taken a few more shots.
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A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
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It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.
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If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it.
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p. 163-4 ; as cited in Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 15-16
