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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Parents, family, and friends tell you that you can be whatever you want to be. But what they really mean is whatever you want as long as it fits in their neat, little box. And for a woman exercising her command, that box is restrictive as hell. Destroy that box and the horse it rode in on. Light it on fire for good measure. Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
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He’d been her one taste of the forbidden fruit. A slow coil of anger began to burn deep inside him. Nobody ever asked the damned fruit if it wanted to be forbidden.
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Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
