Carolyn Heilbrun (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun) Quotes
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The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
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Just broke up with somebody. Well, it wasn't really a break up, it was a booty call I might have took too serious.
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People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.
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Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.
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I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer and it may never come again.
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I'm very uncomfortable with the idea of vaginas. They bother me in the way that spiders bother some people.
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Pablo really felt the suffering of people and so became a political animal. But he wanted to bring down extradition because this was the only thing he feared, and it became his obsession, his crusade, his cross.
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I made too many mistakes in the games - throwing, fielding, pitching. So far, this season has been weird to me. I can't worry about that. I have to worry about the future and cut some of my pitches per inning, and that's what we'll do. I have 30 more starts to go.
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She would never again try to knit even one stitch in the long chain of their married life. She hated all that was to come.
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No man bears more responsibility for the present worldwide financial crisis and coming depression than Alan Greenspan.
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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Brazil was, is, and will be in fashion.
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Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.
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I used to do a lot of video analysis early on, but more for pleasure and looking at my own technique.
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I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.
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The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.
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One minute I was playing chess and doing maths all the time, the next I had been rerouted into more 'normal' girls' activities: reading, writing stories and worrying about my clothes.
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I think most of us would agree that people who have, say, little formal schooling but labor honestly and diligently to help feed, clothe, and educate their families are deserving of greater respect - and help, if necessary - than many people who are superficially more successful.
