Benjamin Wittes Quotes
When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.
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While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.
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The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.
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There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.
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I am very, very diligent and extremely hard-working.
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There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.
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God cares about you and your needs. Bring them to Him in a spirit of worship and thanksgiving, knowing that He is mindful of your place in His creation.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
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Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
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There are three things to beware of through life: when a man is young, let him beware of his appetites; when he is middle-aged, of his passions; and when old, of covetousness, especially.
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward.
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I really, really love to move. You know what I mean? I mean, it's not a workout, but I absolutely love to do it, and that's performing, which is very close to doing Zumba. When you're onstage and you're moving everything, every single part of your body, it's actually working and active to the tips of your fingers. You're burning a hell of a lot of calories. And I think that's what people always look forward to - they want to know how many calories they've burned, and it's really important to actually know that and know your nutrition even more.
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We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
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Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.
