Abraham Flexner Quotes
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.Abraham Flexner
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
Jack White The White Stripes -
Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
Ian Anderson -
I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
Cameron Sinclair -
I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
Nate Berkus -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank -
Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.
Dan Jenkins
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
Paige Craig -
Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
Lara St. John -
I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
Tea Obreht -
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge -
I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
Dan Fogelberg
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
Lake Bell -
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
Barbara Walters -
Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
Ted Deutch -
I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
Mackenzie Davis -
Pain is never permanent.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel Kant -
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple physical work. That is why there were wars, the movement of frontiers, war over riches.
Lech Walesa -
'Await Your Reply' by Dan Chaon. I've always been obsessed with the idea of disappearing and becoming someone else. Even if you don't share that obsession, I can't recommend this book highly enough.
Lisa Lutz -
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
Victor Hugo -
I think most British people who say they can do an American accent are so bad at it. I find it excruciating. I find it excruciating the other way around, too.
Eileen Atkins -
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Abraham Flexner