Hazel Scott Quotes
If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.
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'Brave New World' dealt with a kind of proto-genetic engineering of the unborn, through really, as many dystopias do, it dealt with totalitarianism. The 1997 film 'Gattaca' updated 'Brave New World,' bringing us to a future where genetic testing determined your job, your wealth, your status in life.
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I don't want a girlfriend because that means I've got a responsibility. I have a responsibility to call you. I have a responsibility not to be with another woman. I have a responsibility to be there on time when you need me.
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I don't make any money.
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By "moral discipline," I mean self-discipline based on moral standards. Moral discipline is the consistent exercise of agency to choose the right because it is right, even when it is hard. It rejects the self-absorbed life in favor of developing character worthy of respect and true greatness through Christlike service.
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What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.
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I just don't think we think about jurists as rock stars or great thinkers, particularly in the political world.
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When reached for comment on the charges, Martha didn't say much, (only) that a subpoena should be served with a nice appetizer.
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We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.
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I didn't choose to be the guy who talks about the mundane - it's just who I am and it's what kind of works for me.
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Think for tomorrow but act for today.
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Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
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I had fun to be a little bit of a nerd.
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Almost every person over 45, and definitely those who have ever smoked, should have a spirometry test.
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Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.
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A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality
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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.
