William Hurlbut Quotes
Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.
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September 11 awoke us to the threat of terrorism. It was forever bookmarked in our history as the day when life as Americans knew it, changed forever.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
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I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
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I am pathetically law-abiding.
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It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'
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The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.
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The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.
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Intertribal aggression, escalating in some cultures to limited warfare, is common enough to be regarded as a general characteristic of hunter-gatherer social behavior.
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Of course he did it voluntarily, but he had to do it.
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Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.
