Jeff Duncan Quotes
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included.
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In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
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Very early in life, it seemed to me that there was a relationship between the problems of the Negro people in America and the Jewish people in Russia, and that the Jewish people's problems were worse than ours.
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We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.
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Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows for a moment or two; in the same sense that any popular art form must aim at the same distraction value. Any such job as that is basically a young man's business. It takes a young man's energy to go traveling around the country, night after night in a different place, prancing and cavorting around in front of mobs of people all out to try to forget their problems for an evening. And for a young man it can be a good enough way of life, if he happens to like it.
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A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had to learn to get back on my feet. I used that heartbreak to create something really beautiful.
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Fingerprint readers require special hardware, and a lot of people find them creepy and don't want to use them. Smart cards and tokens can be lost or stolen.
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My dad brought 'Clerks' to Sundance 22 years ago, and that's when his career started.
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These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.
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We tried two moderate Republican candidates, McCain and Romney, and we lost both times.
