Joseph Glanvill Quotes
We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.
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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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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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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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Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
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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 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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I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone.
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I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.
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A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data.
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I am not a fan of Obamacare. But I was bound and determined to try to comply with the law. I've done everything in my power to try to do that.
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Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.
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Everyone thinks of the roaring twenties and associates it with decadence and flappers, female sexual liberation, the freedom of women to express themselves, the beginning of feminism. But it was also a time of huge, huge change.
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I think that connection with humans is so important. Sometimes I'll do this monologue and talk to the crowd, like, 'Come on, let's really connect here.' I don't think a lot of people understand it's a two-way exchange. Some people go to a show and are like, 'Yeah, you make me feel.' That's not how it works.
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I saw a production of 'The Seagull' at Dallas Theatre Center when I was in high school, and it really did a number on me.
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You get hit over the knuckles enough, you don't stick them out anymore.
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The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous.
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We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.
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There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.
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We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.
