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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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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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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Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.
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'I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman' 6
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Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.
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I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do. The world wasn't so wonderful back then, with segregated rule in the South. But we were never hopeless and we never despaired because we had adults out there struggling with us, being there for us, and buffering us.
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A goal properly set is halfway reached.
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We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.
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p. 63
