Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.
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In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works. - vol. II, p. 582 (as cited on p. 177 of Schopenhauer: A Biography)
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Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.
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The lesson of history is that no one learns.
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A long healthy life is no accident. It begins with good genes, but it also depends on good habits.
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Can a conservative work safely and soundly in a union environment - in a shop filled with union workers, activists, voters and life-long supporters of the Democrat Party? You betcha.
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Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
