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Thomas a Kempis Quotes

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

Thomas a Kempis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: german
Birth: 1380 - 1471

Topics

Live Knowledge Labor Endeavor Little

It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.

God Me Hair Look Movies See

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has denounced negotiation with Iran as a 'historic mistake' that is making the world 'a more dangerous place.' His partners in Washington vigorously echo that view.

Mistake World View Negotiation Place

One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader's need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.

Leadership Leader Vision Best Need

We need to figure out how to merge political progress with actual progress.

Travis Kalanick

Progress Political Need Out How

Like everybody, I started out doing 'bringer' shows - the kind where if you show up with a certain number of people, you get to perform. Sometimes I would actually pay strangers off the street to come in and see my set.

People Doing You Strangers Sometimes

We all have enemies, but my enemies would probably describe me as surprisingly ruthless.

Me Enemies Ruthless Would Describe

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

Time Book Reading Revolution Did

For a long time, I was an assistant in the NFL to George Allen, and George was paranoid that other teams were cheating on him... that they were offering bounties, that they were wiring our locker room, that they were putting food poisoning into the pregame meal of the other team's stars, stuff like that.

Stars Time Food Team Cheating Long

I've loved traveling around the country and meeting people at book signings.

People Book Loved Country Meeting

Everybody you work with has their own voice, and if you do your job well enough, even their closest friends or their partner of 40 years isn't going to recognise the fingerprints of a ghostwriter.

Michael Robotham

Work Job Voice Partner Friends You

That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

Government Why Take Because Use

I always say I owe my sense of humor to 'The Muppets' because I didn't necessarily know what was going on when I watched 'The Muppet Show,' and obviously, 'Sesame Street' was made just for me.

Humor Me Sense Of Humor Know Street

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