Dexter Perkins famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
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diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
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Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.
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Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.
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I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.
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Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.
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I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.
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In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable
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