Will Durant Quotes
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
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I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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I know quite a few fellow members of the news analysis and commentary business, and I have it from the highest-placed sources, on the record, that each and every one of our children is a genius.
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I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'
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I used to cuss in my tweets, and now I don't.
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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.
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I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.
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Faith takes root in the insignificant.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
