Charles Henry Fowler Quotes
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Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
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You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
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I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.
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According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
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The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.
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If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
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You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.
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Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.
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I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
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The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy. (6.43)
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Of course, MIT was notable not just for its faculty but also for its students. And, facing such extremely bright kids as a rookie teacher was something like being thrown to the wolves.
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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
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'Old School' is so breezy it could be a late-night talk show, especially when Craig Kilborn, of 'The Late Late Show,' sidles into camera range as a particularly loathsome competitor to Mitch.
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I used to do calligraphy, and I'm afraid that has lapsed, but I've always been interested in book printing.
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A cultivated and decent man cannot be vain without setting a fearfully high standard for himself, and without despising and almost hating himself at certain moments.
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The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
