Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes
Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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The connection between education and a healthy economy is critical.
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Some days, just occasionally, when I've had just one too many chickpeas, drizzles of olive oil or chunks of feta, I crave a return to the sushi-filled joints of Tokyo.
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Valet parking is an essential at any decent club.
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The evolvement of proteolysis as a centrally important regulatory mechanism is a remarkable example for the development of a novel biological concept and the accompanying battles to change paradigms.
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My witness is the empty sky.
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I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!
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There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
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We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
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I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
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The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
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We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.
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In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.
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When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene.
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How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator.
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The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases, the material to be learned in the various subjects is so swollen that only a fraction of it remains in the head of the individual pupil, and only a fraction of this abundance can find application, while on the other hand it is not adequate for the man working and earning his living in a definite field.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.
