Will Durant Quotes
If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.
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When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
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Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
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Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.
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I hate to travel with stuff.
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Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
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If danger arises in the present moment, there may be an emotion. There may even be pain. But that's a challenge, not a problem. For a problem to exist, you need time and repetitive mind activity.
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.
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Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.
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Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.
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Swarming city, city full of dreams, Where the ghosts in broad daylight hang up the passers-by!
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Power doesn't have to be on such a big scale for powerful things to occur. Within your own home, you can be a powerful woman as a mother, influencing your children's lives.
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They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.
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Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death?
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Does politics have to be injected into everything?
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If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.
