Will Durant Quotes
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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature.
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We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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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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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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The number one thing I look for is personality. For me, the personality of someone makes them more and more attractive over time ... and for those with bad personalities, less and less attractive. I look for honesty, intelligence, kindness, and a good work ethic, to name a few.
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Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
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The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
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We don't work with anyone.
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There are lots of women tennis players, for instance, but because not many of them seem to have much personality, they're interchangeable. You don't have a feeling about them.
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Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
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We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
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We cannot leave vulnerable young men open to the exploitation of extremists, both for our own security and their own wellbeing.
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I'm a jeans and t-shirts kind of guy, but there have definitely been moments where I'm like, 'You know what? I need to upgrade a little bit.' I've tried to snazz things up as much as I can, with me being as lazy as I am.
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I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.
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The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
