Joseph Glanvill Quotes
We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.
Quotes to Explore
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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I have to be able to be honest and be credible, and I think I can say, 'This guy did not have his best game today' rather than, 'He is awful and I cannot believe he did that.'
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
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In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't.
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Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.
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I am more interested in fair and balanced trade between nations than I am in free trade that encumbers us in a multinational pact that is refereed by the WTO.
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I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.
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Restraining the thought-streams natural to the mind, ... the seer dwells in his own nature. Otherwise he is of the same form as the thought-streams.
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When you have an emotion you are recruiting a variety of mechanisms that came in the long history of evolution, long before emotions arose, and those mechanisms all had to do with how an organism manages its life.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.
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Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world.
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We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.
