William Hazlitt Quotes
People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
Quotes to Explore
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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I think a great athlete transcends eras.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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People always give me styling products and stuff.
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'I Was There Too' talks to people who played non-starring roles in big movies. That means the likes of comedian Jimmy Pardo, who didn't make it to the finished 'Dreamgirls.' Still, he recalls that when an actor is put on hold for a movie, he gets paid for two weeks just for sitting at home waiting to be called.
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When we love people but don't make it about us, we're exchanging currency we can use for a while for currency we can use forever.
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One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.
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People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.
