Augustus De Morgan Quotes
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, in York, Pennsylvania, and spent my childhood in a rural area on the west bank of the Susquehanna River.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare;' I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning;' I say I 'passed a school'.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
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I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.
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What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
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Ninety percent of cancers are curable in stage one. We spend billions of dollars and over 40 years searching for a cure, and we're not really that close. So why aren't we teaching people the only cure we have now? Early detection is one sh**ty year, versus the rest of your life.
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It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
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Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.
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I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.
