John Arbuthnot Quotes
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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You have to be yourself.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence, and birth order.
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It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
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Travelling was a big part of my childhood and one that I value very much. In some respects, I can't help but be a bit of a gypsy as an adult. I get fidgety if I'm in one place for longer than three months.
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It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.
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What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?
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I wanted to write about school because most of my audience at the particular time was of a school element.
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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
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I think the 'New York Times' would rather be offended than dead.
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Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.