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Walter Bagehot Quotes

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: February 3, 1826 - March 24, 1877

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Good People Know Why Write Reason

For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.

Best Man Stand Hobby Poor Hobbies

When I'm painting and in the zone, it's difficult for me to stop. It can take me half a day to get into that space, and once I do, I only talk to a certain few people who won't disrupt it. Home to sleep and back at it, nothing else outside of getting food. Everything else is an annoyance getting in my way.

Home Food Day Sleep Space People

And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.

Getting Older Play Mothers Older

How can the country that created electricity, the light bulb, modern cinema as we know it, and the Oscar Meyer Weenie Whistle not be purely awesome?

Light Electricity Cinema Country

Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.

Steven Sinofsky

Business Knowledge Culture New First

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

Trust Broken Story You Old Same

I always go for walks in the countryside.

Go Always Countryside Walks

I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives.

Live People Think America Liberty

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Battle Reach Now Will Places Going

The world stage is very difficult. It's not easy to be on the world stage.

World Easy Difficult Stage Very

Like the majority of Alaskans, I supported a constitutional amendment in 1998 defining marriage as only between a man and a woman, but my thinking has evolved as America has witnessed a clear cultural shift.

Marriage Woman Man Thinking America

I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Feel Walking I Can Write Days Going

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