Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes
Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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I did some good things as a rookie.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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For some reason, lots of terrible things start here and then spread. The Cold War was one. It didn't start in Berlin - it started in Athens in December 1944; the contagion in the eurozone started here in 2010. We are perfectly capable as Europeans of messing things up unnecessarily.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
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Addictive drugs misuse the brain’s existing pre-programming, activating reward mechanisms and extreme feelings of pleasure. When stimulated, the brain’s pleasure centres emit signals to repeat the behaviour. In this sense, the brain is pre-programmed to feel good.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:.)...1''ge$1&&''$1''lt$2'That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat...
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The star of Bethlehem was a star of hope that led the wise men to the fulfillment of their expectations, the success of their expedition. Nothing in this world is more fundamental for success in life than hope, and this star pointed to our only source for true hope: Jesus Christ.
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Cities are central to the shaping and delivery of national policy objectives, and in return, they are the places where social, environmental, and economic policies play out in practice.
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Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
