Rene Dubos Quotes
One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own Government to save the environment.
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What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.
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'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'
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I like America; I enjoy being there. Some people can't stand the insincerity - I love the waiter asking me how my day has been, the can-do culture there. I love the fact that again, you are visible in America. You turn the TV on, there are black politicians, black policemen, black soldiers.
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As an actor, there's nothing worse than the sound of 'seven years'. I'm sure to some people it sounds amazing, but to us, it's, like, seven years of playing the same person.
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The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.
Charles B. Rangel
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The key to terror, the key to terrorism, is not the act - but the fear of the act. That is why bin Laden and his deputies and his imitators are forever putting together videotaped statements and releasing virtual infomercials with dire threats and heart-stopping warnings. But why is the Republican Party imitating them? Bin Laden puts out what amounts to a commercial of fear; The Republicans put out what is unmistakable as a commercial of fear. The Republicans are paying to have the messages of bin Laden and the others broadcast into your home.
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Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.
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Secularism, with its moral relativism, is in direct opposition to Christianity and its absolute morality. The battle is between these two worldviews-one that stands on God's Word and one that accepts man's opinions.
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I know that some subjective experiences of sex are very firm and fundamental, even unchangeable. They can be so firm and unchanging that we call them "innate". But given that we report on such a sense of self within a social world, a world in which we are trying to use language to express what we feel, it is unclear what language does that most effectively. I understand that "innate" is a word that conveys the sense of something hired-wired and constitutive. I suppose I would be inclined to wonder whether other vocabularies might do the job equally well.
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One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration.
