Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould Quotes
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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I think it's really important that people become aware of the amount, the mass of animals that are sitting in shelters as opposed to people going out and just buying puppies that are being bred.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
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I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
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You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
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If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
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As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but more importantly, the United States has the strength of scientific and technological talent, and managerial expertise.
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I'm feeling pretty good right now, but I hope we can just win the whole thing and I can run off into the sunset and say good-bye.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
