Will Durant Quotes
In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.
Will Durant
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
Rafael Nadal
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
Callie Thorne
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Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies.
Harold Bloom
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
Magda Apanowicz
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We've got to win them all and get help from other teams, but we are going to push until the end.
Saku Koivu
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
Ace Frehley
Kiss
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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
J. B. Pritzker
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
Felicity Jones
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
Parker Stevenson
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An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
W. E. B. Griffin
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
Carli Lloyd
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
Natasha Trethewey
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Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off.
Abby Wambach
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Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
Barton Gellman
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The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough.
Dabney Coleman
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Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.
Jack LaLanne
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In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.
Ani DiFranco
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In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else, a wife submits to stricter obligations. For the former, her father's house is a home of freedom and pleasure; for the latter, her husband's is almost a cloister.
Alexis de Tocqueville
