Michael Learned Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.
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The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we?
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Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.
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I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
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Bulk collection of phone records didn't find or stop the Tsarnaev brothers from the massacre in Boston. In fact, one might argue that all of the money spent on bulk collection takes money away from human analysts that might have noticed the older brother's trip to become radicalized in Chechnya.
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I've never loved you enough to trust you, we just met and I just fucked you!
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L'accent est l'âme du discours.
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I don't explain-I explore.
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When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
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I never had a driving ambition to be a star.
