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I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying. ”
The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil. ”
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. ”
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting. ”
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. ”
She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises. ”
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week. ”
Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or respect you on account of your fine or costly clothes. ”
There are people who think I'm a Bolshevik, and this is all a major distraction at best and heresy at worst. But I really don't care. ”
When I joined Ford, in the late 1970s, I felt strongly we could not forever be a huge user of natural resources without there being consequences. But I was alone in my thinking in those days. ”