Samuel Smiles Quotes
Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.

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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.
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No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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When you think of Hollywood, you think of the land of opportunity. I always want to have the opportunity to do things conducive to my career.
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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I realized that one of the differences between news photography and dance photography was that the former has to tell a specific story, whereas all a dance photograph had to be was visually interesting.
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In law, especially back in '95 when I was breaking in, it was much more of an old boys' network.
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Embrace reality. Think about what delights you - the small luxuries on which you depend, the people whom you cherish most. But remember that they have their own distinct character, which is quite a separate matter from how we happen to regard them.
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What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
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what is seen must always be the outcome of much that is unseen.
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Self-control is only courage under another form. It may also be regarded as the primary essence of character.