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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Washington Irving
About
Communion
Contact
Dignity
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Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.
Jeff Bezos
Car
Data
Drive
Efficient
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You know you're not anonymous on our site. We're greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.
Jeff Bezos
Anonymous
Arrange
Benefit
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Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.
Jeff Bezos
Companies
Great
Industries
Lot
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Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
Washington Irving
Attend
Because
Business
Courts
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I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.
Jeff Bezos
Further
Gigantic
Little
Lottery
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We will have to leave this planet, and we're going to leave it, and it's going to make this planet better.
Jeff Bezos
Better
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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
Washington Irving
Always
Among
Away
Clouds
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I grew up reading science fiction.
Jeff Bezos
Grew
Reading
Science
Fiction
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Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.
Jeff Bezos
Always
Continue
Find
Habit
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Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Washington Irving
Abroad
Apt
Discipline
Home
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I read 'The High Frontier' in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.
Jeff Bezos
Civilization
Clear
Expanding
Frontier
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When we build our own colonies, we can do them in near-Earth vicinity, because people are going to want to come back to Earth. Very few people - for a long time, anyway - are going to want to abandon Earth altogether.
Jeff Bezos
Abandon
Altogether
Anyway
Back
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We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we'll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.
Jeff Bezos
Build
Humans
Interesting
Live
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Washington Irving
Jealousy
Never
Regard
Strong
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Our motto at Blue Origin is 'Gradatim Ferociter': 'Step by Step, Ferociously.'
Jeff Bezos
Blue
Motto
Origin
Our
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You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place.
Jeff Bezos
Cannot
Company
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Giant
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The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.
Jeff Bezos
Commercial
Enterprise
Government
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Washington Irving
Back
Flow
Heart
Lost
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No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it's government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.
Jeff Bezos
About
Ask
Change
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Of course humans like to explore, and we should. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's more than that. It's essential for your children and your children's children.
Jeff Bezos
Children
Course
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Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
Washington Irving
Community
Continually
Ears
Ever
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The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.
Jeff Bezos
Dynamic
Figure
How
Out
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Washington Irving
Great
Great Minds
Minds
Others
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The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Washington Irving
Dead
Effect
Elevate
Mind
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
Washington Irving
Delights
Fills
Majesty
Noble
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Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.
Rafael Nadal
End
Important
Life
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
Rafael Nadal
Because
Down
Even
Hard
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington Irving
Contrition
Deep
Eloquently
Grief
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
Rafael Nadal
Boring
Focus
Just
Out
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
Rafael Nadal
Always
Because
Just
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The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
Washington Irving
Course
Effected
Enemy
Harm
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
Rafael Nadal
Changed
Doing
Good
Illusion
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Washington Irving
Age
Constant
Grows
Never
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
Gifts
Good
Good Nature
Heaven
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Washington Irving
Enmity
Felicity
Marriage
Strife
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I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
Washington Irving
Emotional
Had
You
Your
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving
Charity
Christmas
Fire
Flame
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Washington Irving
He
Heart
Imagination
Senses
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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Washington Irving
Departing
Distant
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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
Washington Irving
After
Beauty
Been
Charms
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There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving
Bad
Bruised
Certain
Change
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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
Washington Irving
Approach
Become
Charm
Distance
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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
Washington Irving
Abundant
Companionship
Equal
Good
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Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.
Washington Irving
Doubted
Eloquence
Enthusiasm
Indeed
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I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star general by hanging about the house being the perfect dad.
Sam Elliott
About
Being
Dad
Four
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I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
Sam Elliott
Like
Nine
Since
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I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
Sam Elliott
Dark
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I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
Sam Elliott
Goes
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Known
Sam
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I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you. I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.
Sam Elliott
Actor
Boxes
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