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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.
Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.
Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon.
Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
I think in industries riddled with bias, you tend to hire women only if their previous work is very masculine, which is hilarious given that this is not how male directors are chosen.
No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.
It is not my job, as Chief Minister, to probe crimes or pronounce anyone guilty. My priority lies in bringing Punjab out of the chaos in which it has been left by the previous government.
[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.
Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.
Boxing is a family tradition. The last five generations down to my dad have been fighters.
I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.
Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.
Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.
All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to.
I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm.
Across generations, the torch-bearers of Carnatic music have mastered the art form of connection.
With 'Bangarang,' I didn't make any announcement, no campaign. I just put it on my Facebook and some other places. That's how I've done everything with my previous records. I've always kept it organic.
A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.
Our country has a rich history and so diversified, which should be acknowledged by the younger generations.
There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way, And returned on the previous night.
That was an exception within the [Barack] Obama administration's economic policy, a crisis that he inherited from the previous administration, and felt it was essential to carry through on.
What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions. That is karma.
If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.
It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'
It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will, a predisposition to take offense.
Facing inward, join hands so as to form a small circle. Then, without moving from their places they sing the opening song, according to previous agreement, in a soft undertone.
Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.
Picking from previous works I've watched, I really liked Jennifer Lawrence's 'Silver Linings Playbook.' It made me want to play that kind of role some day.
Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.
Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
I don't want to take anything away from Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. They're both great hitters, but they're batting against guys they never would have seen in previous years.
The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.
A lot of the values of millennials are shared by all of our generations. Who doesn't want purpose, feedback and balance?
I'm kind of old-fashioned because I was born and live in the same house for six generations.
A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.
Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.
This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.
Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.
When you know even for a moment
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations
With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.
We felt it was very likely the fee would be a deterrent for people, and that 'WoW' would not sell as quickly as some of our previous games.
I have never been at a club where the players talked so much about a previous manager as they did about Jose Mourinho at Inter Milan.
My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
When someone is working hard on something, that always connects with people, no matter what the differences in generations are.
Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.
There is absolutely zero doubt that you can technically do an excellent full-featured FPS game, because these devices are more powerful now than, like, a previous generation Xbox.
My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit.
Providing the tools for a great start in life will yield dividends for generations to come.
Theatres are like sacred places - you hear the stories of previous performances and people who have strived to find that sweet spot on stage and succeeded, and failed, in the same space before you.
Three years after the four deepest previous recessions began - in 1953, 1957, 1973 and 1981 - employment was on average 4.7% higher than the pre-recession peak.
We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this important program.
I don't know if, in a previous life, I was, like, the embodiment of a guitar, because any time someone plays a guitar with the licks, I just resonate to it.
As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.
No race of kings has ever presented above one man of common sense in twenty generations.
Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.
