Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it.
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I love Costco.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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Wal-Mart is an amazing success story. What I particularly admire very much about the late Sam Walton was his policy of valuing his employees. Giving value to employees is very rare in the retail industry. I also admire the strategies Walton used to build up his discount store concept.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
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The Blind Boys are truly the deepest well of American musical heritage you can discover.
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The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
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Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.
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Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.
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As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.
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If we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
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Death had his grudge against me, and he got up in the way, like an armed robber, with a pike in his hand.
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If you mean do I use the guitar when I'm sitting at home writing stuff, then basically no, never. All I would ever write would be stuff that my fingers easily fall into.
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Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
