- Nov 07, 2020
Your Quotes
On staying in control of what's truly your own.
These quotes focus on ownership: your trust, your plans, your self-esteem, and how easily outside pressure can chip away at decisions that should belong to you alone. For more, see our Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Compute
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were raised in a family that had high aspirations for their children, and those high aspirations tended to be along the lines of service and high-minded beliefs, living up to your responsibilities. Both my Danforth grandparents admired service very much.
- Simple
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a special operations mission, the concept of speed is simple. Get to your objective as fast as possible. Any delay will expand your area of vulnerability.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disagreement on issues doesn't mean 'dissension.' All it means is that honest men can differ in their approach. You lay out your positions, and president makes a decision.
- Essayist
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- Nov 07, 2020
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.
- Democratic
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- Nov 07, 2020