Carl L. Becker (Carl Lotus Becker) Quotes
Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
Kangana Ranaut
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
Quentin Crisp
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
Quintilian
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Ben Roethlisberger is a proven winner in athletic competition. But the measure of a true leader is how they conduct themselves 24/7, not just during a winning touchdown drive or a goal-line stance. Leadership isn't something that gets switched off because the game clock expires.
Jackson Katz
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
Harold Wilson
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Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.
Viktor Orban
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What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.
Natasha Richardson
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You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
Kangana Ranaut
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Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
Irwin Shaw
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I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.
Malcolm Gladwell
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.
Owen Wister
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If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.
Barack Obama
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Está atado a ellos y no comprendes cómo, porque ellos no están atados a ti.
Antonio Porchia
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The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.
Agnes Martin
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I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.
Freddie Freeman
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Paul Desmond sounds like a female alcoholic.
Eddie Condon
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Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.
Rene Descartes
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The old-fashioned idea of a good manager is one who is supposed to know all the answers, can solve every problem himself, and can give appropriate orders to his subordinates to carry out his plans... A good modern manager is like a good coach who leads and encourages his team in never-ending quality improvement.
George E. P. Box
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What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
Lucille Clifton
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I'm not one of those actors who's very good at having a list of roles that I want to play someday - which is bad, because I really need to do it. I have people in theaters ask me what I want to do and I don't have an answer!
Michael Cerveris
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Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.
Carl L. Becker