Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 29, 1799 - March 4, 1888

Topics

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It's a big deal when you play in a rock band and you conquer Japan. You know, it's a big deal.

Johnny Colt

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It is difficult to overstate the importance of media as a tool to encourage civic engagement and participation, and the importance of a diverse and well-informed public.

Tony Cardenas

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I share my personal experiences of what is right according to me in a particular situation.

Rithvik Dhanjani

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If you tell your husband or boyfriend for his whole life that he needn't worry about his clothes, that he couldn't possibly understand them, that they are a woman's affair, then you can hardly complain that he doesn't have any style sense. You all make this bed.

Russell Smith

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Everybody is promoting something.

Michael Wolf

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TV actors are doing great in Bollywood. We have our own market, our own fans, who love to see us on the big screen.

Mona Singh

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Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value.

Jay Samit

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The perfection of style consists in the use of the exact speech necessary to convey the sense in the fewest words consistent with perspicuity, at the same time having regard to appropriateness and harmony of expression. Its greater excellencies are directness, accuracy, appropriateness and perspicuity.

Joseph P. Bradley

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The kinds of things that poetry can offer are timeless - mainly the kind of compression it offers of powerful language, powerful feelings and images, and, you know, the inner experience becoming outer.

Brenda Hillman

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Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.

Arthur Cayley

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For some time, I've said this issue of comprehensive immigration reform is not just an issue about immigration or human rights or civil rights, it's about our economy. You take 11 million people from out of the dark and into the light. The think tanks have surmised that you are talking about trillions of dollars infused into the economy.

Antonio Villaraigosa

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Jasmine - it brings back memories of India with my parents.

Anne Reid

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