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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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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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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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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The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I will say.
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I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.
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If you want to give the devil a message, write it on the bottom of your shoes.
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Although our 'gentle air' cannot improve the way hate and envy look, it does seem not to encourage firmness and decision. All is compromise; caution and refinement are everywhere. Everything has to 'make a good impression' - whether or not it is any good: the impression is the main thing.
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But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
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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.
