William Osler Quotes
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
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If your partner is angry with you, recognize that his anger is a misdirected plea for love. Your partner's simply upset because he feels something you said or did was a sign of not loving him enough.
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I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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Most of our shows are about two and a half hours long.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.
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How often one reads a contemporary full-length novel and thinks quietly, mutinously, that it would have worked out better at half or a third the length.
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The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
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We have 26,000 genes. But a blind, millimetre-long roundworm with only 959 cells in total already has over 19,000.
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Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.
Ford Frick -
I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
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It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.
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I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.
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With 'Moreau,' it's been particularly confusing because I started out being the writer of the screenplay and then trying to be the director, then being moved from being the director and having to become the dog extra, it makes some kind of sense to suddenly become a character in the story.
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It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.
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I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what other people want, you're screwed.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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Maybe I was a little jealous or envious of the abstract painters - but the truth was I thought what they were doing was boring.
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
