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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving
Age
Constant
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 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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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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Our motto at Blue Origin is 'Gradatim Ferociter': 'Step by Step, Ferociously.'
Jeff Bezos
Blue
Motto
Origin
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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
Forget
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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
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Life
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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
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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
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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
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Washington Irving
Age
Constant
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Never
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
Sam Elliott
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Nine
Since
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I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'
Sam Elliott
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I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.
Sam Elliott
About
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Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
Sam Elliott
Better
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It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.
Sam Elliott
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I think the people that most often cross a line are comedians. I think they relish that, and take pride in that on some level - at least, from what little I've seen and understand about people that do stand-up.
Sam Elliott
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Comedians
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I think every actor's dream is somebody writes something specifically for them.
Sam Elliott
Actor
Dream
Every
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Looking back on the long haul in my career, little films, big films, TV, the Western thing has been really good to me.
Sam Elliott
Back
Been
Big
Career
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It seemed like whenever a Western was going to get made, it came my way.
Sam Elliott
Came
Get
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My western heritage runs deep.
Sam Elliott
Deep
Heritage
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Western
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
Became
Block
Granite
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
Conscious
Faults
Greatest
None
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas Carlyle
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Escapes
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Thomas Carlyle
Being
Confined
Human
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Thomas Carlyle
Done
Flowing
Good
Good Man
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Thomas Carlyle
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Amount
Avail
Honor
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas Carlyle
Bad
Bad Times
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Fortune
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Thomas Carlyle
Accomplish
Alone
Anything
Commanding
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
Accomplishment
Builds
Like
Nothing
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The two things that I wanted in my life were to have a movie career and to be married, to have a family. And it's an embarrassment of riches that I've got both.
Sam Elliott
Both
Career
Embarrassment
Family
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I was in the cement end of the construction business, as a laborer. I was pouring concrete, and stripping forms off of set concrete, and pulling nails, and stacking plywood, and doing that kind of thing. I was in peak condition in those days.
Sam Elliott
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I grew up in Sacramento and spent a lot of time in the Saturday matinee. I just thought, 'Wow.' It's that magic of sitting in a dark theater as a little kid. That was in the '50s.
Sam Elliott
Dark
Grew
Just
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I really never had any thought about being a legitimate actor, like a stage performer. I wanted to make movies. I wanted to do television and make movies.
Sam Elliott
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