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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

Topics

Man Government Prison Place True

Politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing.

Business Politics Do The Right Thing

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

Mother I Am Things Used Balancing

Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

Technology Talent Deep Spirit Bench

I saw no reason why childhood shouldn't last forever. So I created clothes that worked and moved and allowed people to run, to jump, to leap, to retain their precious freedom.

Freedom Childhood People Clothes Run

My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity - in the sense that I'm willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing.

Live Walls House Sometimes Up Adult

What we look for in the school is unrealized potential.

School Potential Look

There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.

Myself Weird Filmmaking Intellectual

The secret to gaining the upper hand in a negotiation is to give the other side the illusion of control. Don't try to force your opponent to admit that you are right. Ask questions, that begin with 'How?' or 'What?' so your opponent uses mental energy to figure out the answer.

Christopher Voss

Control Energy Questions You Admit

Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.

Beautiful College Mom Three Office

The first thing I put down on paper is a storyboard, like a film director.

Down First Director Paper Film Like

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

Beautiful Great Play Living Ignorant

Having the benefit to our society, not only here in the United States but throughout the world with the amount of invention you get from having a space program, is well worth the risk that an individual like myself has to take by flying in the vehicle.

Myself Space World Society Flying

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