James Russell Lowell Quotes
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I can only control what I can control.
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At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
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Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
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The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies is supposed to have subscribed to the Village Voice for six years in an attempt to find out about life in America's rural areas.
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I do so dearly believe that no half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
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'Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved,' asserted the Tin Man. 'Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.'
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The autodecrement is not magical.
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Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
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In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention paid to those who survived and how they survived.
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Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart,Just as the whim bites. For my part,I do not care a farthing candleFor either of them, nor for Handel.
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It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.'
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I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
