Janet Erskine Stuart Quotes

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom.

Janet Erskine Stuart

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I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

Jesse Ventura

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Artists' obsessions with technology are not new, but in the late aughts, the work tended to focus on the possibility of the medium, treating technology like a new tool rather than a sociopolitical framework.

Jenna Wortham

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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

Ann Voskamp

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Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

John Ruskin

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These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.

Steve Finley

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Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

Steven Pinker

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My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

Toyin Odutola

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Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

Roger von Oech

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Boldness isn't something you're born with; you either choose it or you don't.

Mike Yaconelli

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Blowouts, manicures, and massages are my little indulgences; I get them whenever I can. The chair massage during a manicure is a must, even if it's only 10 minutes. The ones in the back, though, on the bed where you can get a proper massage, make all the difference.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

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