William Morris Davis famous quotes

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  • Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

  • It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.

  • Today, ... anything you can come up with that works is worth trying.

  • True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

  • The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap

  • The distinction between right and wrong ("la distinction du bien et du mal", Fr.), is nothing else than their unyielding (or implacable) opposition; thus the moral consciousness is an innate and intimate revelation of the absolute, which goes beyond (or goes pass, or exceed) every empirical data (or given information). It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish ("pourront être édifiées", Fr.) the real basis of morality.

  • If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

  • The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.

  • In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.

  • The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.