William Osler Quotes
One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.
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Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellow men.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.
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Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.
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In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.
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If I see something new, I'd be like, 'Ooh, I want to do that.' The hunger to learn and do better never goes. Your mind is always working. You want to do so many creative things.
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Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
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Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.
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People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.
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It goes without saying that the normal durability of fixed capital is calculated on the supposition that all the conditions under which it can perform its functions normally during that time are fulfilled, just as we assume, in placing a mans life at 30 years on the average,that he will wash himself.
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That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized.
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I cannot keep silent, nor would it be proper, so many favours and graces has the Lord deigned to bestow on me in the land of my captivity. For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven.
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One special advantage of the skeptical attitude of mind is that a man is never vexed to find that after all he has been in the wrong.
