Dave Barry Quotes
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.
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Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.
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I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
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Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
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I think it's important to be diverse, and I hope we continue to see that as a trend in the fashion industry.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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Nurses are an integral component of the health care system, and it is important that we recognize the over 2.7 million registered nurses for the significant work that they do.
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Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the past, is not like that. It isn't flat or linear. It has no outline. It is slippery, like liquid; infinite and unknowable, like space. And it is changeable: just when you think you see a pattern, perspective shifts, an alternate version is proffered, a long-forgotten memory resurfaces.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival.
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I've run for office, and I've stood on street corners, while people walked by me and didn't want to talk to me, and did not think I was a credible candidate. And then four years later, I was nearly elected mayor of San Francisco, so I know what it takes.
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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
