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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882

Topics

Good Science Value Bad Bad Times

My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.

Life Father Teacher Road Down Kind

I ran for Congress, just once.

Congress Just Once Ran

I used to work at my dad's peanut mill, and worked 15 hours a day, 6 days a week. So, now, riding around on a nice tour bus and doing shows, you'd have to get picky to have a downside.

Work Day Doing Week You Nice

I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.

Diahann Carroll

Lucky Clothing Line Affiliated

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

Boris Pasternak

Love Compassion World Deep Strong

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

Car Past Me Mouth Bad Said

I love doing action.

Love Action Doing I Love

There is a terribly terrestrial mindset about what we need to do to take care of the planet - as if the ocean somehow doesn't matter or is so big, so vast that it can take care of itself, or that there is nothing that we could possibly do that we could harm the ocean.

Ocean Care Mindset Take Care Nothing

I never intended to be a teacher, but once I started teaching, I found that junior high kids are easy to get hooked on, and I stayed for nearly twenty years.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Teacher Easy Never Years High Get

Business development is a part of M&A - we identify signals in the market, whether its trends or disruptive technology, and bring them back and address the opportunities. I have three levers I can pull - partnerships, acquisitions, or investments.

Business Technology Partnerships Back

My dad was a presence, of course, but he worked nights a lot, and I would only see him one day a week.

Richard LaGravenese

Day Week One Day Him See Presence

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

Keith Thibodeaux

Me Christmas Real Drum Buy Toy

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