Will Durant Quotes
The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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If I manage to leave my bedroom and get to the gym, that makes me feel good about myself! For me, the most difficult part is getting out of bed, but once I'm out, I really enjoy playing sports.
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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
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I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.
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But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.
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The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.
