John Locke Quotes
Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain. This 'tis possible will be thought, by kind parents, a very unnatural thing towards their children; and by most, unreasonable...
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
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The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.
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I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
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I know it can be difficult for parents, but I really do believe that kids need to play the predominant role in the choices that go into their own space.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
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I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.
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Nulli penitus descendere ferrocontigit; alta sedent civilis volnera dextrae.
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Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.
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I was delighted to not go to university. I couldn't wait to be out of education.
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I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.
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Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain. This 'tis possible will be thought, by kind parents, a very unnatural thing towards their children; and by most, unreasonable...
