Joshua Prager Quotes
We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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I don't want to sound obnoxious, but I like to think I brought it another step. I was able to bring people who were casually interested in boxing together.
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With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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I have consistently supported laws ensuring women are able to make their own health care decisions, and I will continue to protect women's access to contraceptives and reproductive health care.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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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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The thing about the South is we accept our history. We don't push it under the rug.
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I think self-love isn't some destination you get to and you are then incapable of feeling those feelings, but a journey in which you adapt your experiences to make for a happier life.
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Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos that does not match the Space Age revelation of a unified universe in which the earth is clearly in, rather than separated from, the heavens. Hierarchical representations do not reflect what either the world or we are like.
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I feel very privileged to do what I do, so I'm just going to keep working hard and enjoy every minute of it because it could be over just like that.
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If the great Phil Ochs were to rise from the dead today, he would probably be hailed as the new David Rovics.
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Too much of something is never good.
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We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.
