Quotes with tributaries

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• I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

  Cavett Robert
  American businessman and founder of the National Speakers Association (1907 - 1997)
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• You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

  Bruce Sterling
  American science fiction author (1954 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unemotionally
• tributaries
• information
• greatness
• developed
• adversity

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