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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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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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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I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
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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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Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.
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I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving.
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Civil servants take forever to do anything.
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The conversation limped along this line of thought much like a zombie: lifeless and mindless and making a jelly of whatever healthy brains were within its reach.
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