Douglas Jerrold Quotes
Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health.
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I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
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Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.
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I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
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I can't not be who I am.
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If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that's only one side of what we do. We also trade, we intermarry, we allow each other to travel through our territory. There's an enormous amount of cooperation.
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To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
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There are men and women still on the streets, and that's all they are saying Can you spare a quarter? I come from a crowd of people who were current on the outlook on life, who were social and knew where they were and had some input into how things seemed to be.
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Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.
