William Graham Sumner Quotes

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.

William Graham Sumner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 30, 1840 - April 12, 1910

Topics

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It's important to work hard, stay humble, and not let the criticism or the compliments go to your head.

Jessica Sanchez

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Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.

John Lydon

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It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

John Ruskin

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When you go to the polls, ethics and morality should be part of the evaluation.

John Shimkus

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The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.

Amir Butler

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I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the previous biographies. He said something which kept coming back to me as I worked on Cleopatra, which was: 'There's no further new material; there are only new questions.'

Stacy Schiff

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Being here in the United States, English is not my first language. It's kind of a challenge for me, a big challenge for my family.

Shinsuke Nakamura

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If you ask most trainers who have ridden which pressure is greater - watching your horse or riding it - they will tell you it is harder watching it because you have no control over what happens.

Tony McCoy

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It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Roger von Oech

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I have no tax delinquency problem, nor have I ever.

Matt Bevin

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The model of getting the consumer to come to you is old, and the new model is how can you get to the consumer on their terms, in ways they want to engage in. How people are choosing to interface with content is very different. You've got to marry different platforms.

Mindy Grossman

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In my freshman year in high school, I went to the only public high school in Boston with a theatre program.

Donnie Wahlberg

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