John Tyndall Quotes
The most fatal error that could be committed by the leaders of religious thought is the attempt to force into their own age conceptions which have lived their life, and come to their natural end in preceding ages.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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There is a valid nationwide sentiment of concern over public pensions, and poor funding ratios are viewed negatively by financial markets.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
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I am the best in the world, and all these guys are fighting me to gain credit.
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I'm very realistic in my outlook on everything in life. When I look ahead in my mind to see what's going to happen next, I see the good and I see the bad.
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In this world, is the destiny of mankind controlled by some transcendental entity or law? Is it like the hand of God hovering above? At least it is true that man has no control; even over his own will.
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The most fatal error that could be committed by the leaders of religious thought is the attempt to force into their own age conceptions which have lived their life, and come to their natural end in preceding ages.
