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Amos Bronson Alcott Quotes

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Book Profit Expectation Delight

This election is a critical step in that overall plan - transforming the Iraqi government into a fully constitutional one, able to secure its own borders and ensure the safety of its citizens.

Government Step Safety Plan Election

I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.

Stars Tree Wife Now Christmas Right

Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.

Anand Giridharadas

Technology Promises Feel Loss Magic

I think the issue that is really going to hurt the Republican Party is the right-to-life issue. I think they have painted themselves into a real corner.

Think Hurt Party Real Republican

I don't see myself racing at 50 years old. I enjoy racing, and that has been my whole life. But one day I will take time to look at other things. I know that everything has an end date, even life, and I also have a family and there are other things to enjoy than trying to be first into the corner and fastest out.

Life Family Time Myself Day End

Price is the least interesting thing about bitcoin.

Interesting Price Bitcoin Least

Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.

Respect Look Admire Artists Role

It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.

Dog Today Pet Cold Walking Cat

When people think what is the most simple sort of human, it's a white man, and anything else that is added to that complicates it for people. It comes with all kinds of meanings and connotations. If they have a different skin color, that comes with a connotation. If they're a woman, 'Oh well, what do I feel about that?'

Simple Woman Man People Color Think

Whenever I get in a car and I'm going to or from the airport or the train station, I put on a TED Talk using the TED app. It makes the trip go by super fast, and it fills my sails.

Car Fast Train Go Sails Airport

I think the institutions, principles, norms, and traditions that make the United States of America genuinely exceptional are at serious risk. It has been hard to think about anything else.

Think America Serious Principles

I was a heathen Jewess with no bat mitzvah. Only the neurosis, the brown hair, and the self-deprecating humor. But being one of the only Jewish kids in my WASPy hometown definitely informed my perspective on the humor of being an outsider.

Humor Perspective Hair Hometown Kids

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