Calvin S. Hall Quotes
Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
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I was in Africa Before the building of Rome. I came here To the remnant of Troy.
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It's like a pylon.
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.
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I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out.
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Gentlemen, start your egos.
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In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
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I'd like to have a family.
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Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad.
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I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.
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I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989 -1990 off season, and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again.
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The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.
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I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies.
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DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES.
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Have the courage of your own convictions and don't be swayed by friends who boast about their financial home runs. Last year's winners are often this year's losers.
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I used to be weird about it, but I think sometimes you can learn from watching yourself and all the mistakes you make and try to continue growing. But I'm completely uncomfortable for sure.
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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.
