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Tryon Edwards Quotes

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: theologian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 7, 1809 - January 4, 1894

Topics

Good Hope Sacrifice Ending Loss

It sounds cheesy, but music has saved me in a lot of ways. If I had just continued acting, I don't think I would be alive.

Music Me Think Acting Alive Just

I want to make it clear that the black race did not come to the United States culturally empty-handed. The role and importance of ethnic history is in how well it teaches a people to use their own talents, take pride in their own history and love their own memories.

John Henrik Clarke

Love Memories History People Pride

It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.

Time Research Colleagues Doing Real

Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.

Woman Grace Strong Person Young She

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

Jean de la Bruyere

Age Day Single Lived Single Day

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

Beauty God Time Perspective Day

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

Good Job Flaws Good Job Own

I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.

I Am Immortal Am

The East Village is where I cut my teeth as a kid. I ran around here on a skateboard.

Village Teeth Kid Cut Where Here

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth

Life Love Kindness Best Man Little

I guarantee you, if you could give me 10 points in all those seventh games against the Boston Celtics, instead of Bill Russell having 11 rings, I could've at least had nine or eight.

Wilt Chamberlain

Me You Games Boston Rings Against

The older I got, the less pretentious I got in my art tastes and work.

Work Art Got Pretentious Older Less

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