Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.
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Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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If we know we're just going to have sex and then ditch the guy, it can be fun.
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Don't let me die in an automobileI wanna lie in an open fieldWant the snakes to suck my skinWant the worms to be my friendsWant the birds to eat my eyesAs here I lieThe clouds fly by
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To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
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It's really hard to have your voice heard in a man's world. People are always comparing women and bringing them down - that, I'm completely against. We have an obligation as women to not pit ourselves against each other, because men are going to do it for us.
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Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
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Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.
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Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.
