If something is irrational, that means it won’t work. It’s usually unrealistic.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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If something is irrational, that means it won’t work. It’s usually unrealistic.
I look upon another’s insistence on the merits of his or her life – duties, intellect, accomplishment – and see that most of it is nonsense.
The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.
And maybe I’m a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I’ve done.
My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
The test of one’s behavior pattern is their relationship to society, relationship to work and relationship to sex.
It’s good that the first half of the speech emphasized freedom, because George W. Bush has been the global champion for freedom. As he said, if we don’t fight tyranny it will not leave us alone in peace.
We’ve been using C and C++ way too much – they’re nice, but they’re very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we’ve been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man… it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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