Irving Babbitt Quotes
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Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
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I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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If you do something, expect consequences.
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Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.
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I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.
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Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
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A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.
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You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.
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Now is the age of anxiety.
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
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So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.
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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
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Into a dancer you have grown from the seeds somebody else has sown
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I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely.
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When we visited with legislative counsel, they told us that the only way to effectively accomplish what we were trying to do was to put the words in the legislation.
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And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore baseball's profitability by 'running the game like a business.'
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People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I've come to believe that you do indeed reap what you sow. For those who constantly gripe about life, I turn and walk away. For those who speak negatively about people behind their backs, I move on.
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p. 63
