Will Durant Quotes
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I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.
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To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
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It's going to take an extra effort on the part of the United States that can't just afford to be unconcerned about the situation.
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It's alright, you can afford to lose a day or two.
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While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.
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I'm all for bootlegging. A record costs $20 . . . who can afford that?
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For the sake of our children and our grandchildren, we can't afford to let this fail.
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You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.
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Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.
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A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!
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I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford.
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There’s one thing we know. We can’t afford – and no one in the world can afford – to treat all the late-stage cancer.
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I look to bop till I drop. That's what I want to do. I want to go out on the road. I love to travel and I couldn't afford to do it if it wasn't for this.
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An African statesman is not a naked boy begging from rich capitalists.
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I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.
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I have no credit cards. That was the decision that was made jointly by the credit card companies, and by me. I can't say that that was completely on my account. I buy nothing on credit now, nothing. If I can't afford it, I don't buy it. I have a debit card, that's all I have. Any debt that I have, I am paying down.
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For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.
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any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.
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Most people do not realize that as they continue to find things to complain about, they disallow their own physical well-being. Many do not realize that before they were complaining about an aching body or a chronic disease, they were complaining about many other things first. It does not matter if the object of your complaint is about someone you are angry with, behavior in others that you believe is wrong, or something wrong with your own physical body. Complaining is complaining, and it disallows improvement.
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I look at some of the songs I wrote years ago and I can't believe I wrote such crap.
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The world is Trouble...and Grace. That is all there is.
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I think journalists and filmmakers are keen observers. And actors must also be sharp observers as they draw their characters and their stories from what they experience around them. After all, that is what actors, filmmakers, journalists are trained to be: observers. And then they do something with their observations.
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As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
