Ralph Adams Cram Quotes
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
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I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
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The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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You work hard and you have expectations. So I'm living my expectations right now.
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In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.
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That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.
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Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.
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If we define a miracle as an effect of which the cause is unknown to us, then we make our ignorance the source of miracles! and the universe itself would be a standing miracle. A miracle might be perhaps defined more exactly as an effect which is not the consequence or effect of any known laws of nature.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
