Anthony Comstock Quotes
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
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Is an out-of-control life challenge making you feel 'out of control' over your entire life? If so, stop lying around doing nothing. Stop sleeping late. Stop watching too much TV. Start recognizing that this lack of a disciplined schedule will only increase your feelings of being out of control of your life.
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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I don't understand why you have to wear a wedding ring to warn people off. You should be able to be faithful to that person without anything on your body to show that you are with someone.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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That's a great team we lost to. It just wasn't our day.
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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.
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I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.
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Women are but the toys which amuse our lighter hours-ambition is the serious business of life.
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The Man Penal settlement. Do you know whats happening there? The murders, the starvation, the complete breakdown of law and order.
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The more I paint the more I like everything.
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Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
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At the end of the day, I got to live my life for my family, for my children, and I'm going to do what's best for them.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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I once knew a girl who didn't know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she knew where Africa was and she answered, 'Is it the orange one on a map?'
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The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.
