Noah Porter (Noah Thomas Porter III) Quotes
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
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My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
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We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
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Practice the brotherhood, love, and cooperation insistently enjoined by hundreds of Qur'anic verses and traditions of the Prophet!
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
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I like to get a salad or fruit in me - just some good energy food - and then a plate a pasta with a breast of chicken.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
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The alarming thing in China is the almost total absence of primary care. Even in cities, there are no independent doctors' offices or neighborhood clinics, so people have to go to the hospital for every health care need.
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I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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I don't want to live my life to entertain other people. I have other things that I'd like to do.
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Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.
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If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not be long before the art of fine cooking is viewed as the invention of a handful of snobs. . . . A whole aspect of living well, of civilization itself, is threatened with extinction.
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The public, as a whole, buys at the wrong time and sells at the wrong time. The average operator, when he sees two or three points profit, takes it; but, if a stock goes against him two or three points, he holds on waiting for the price to recover, with oftentimes, the result of seeing a loss of two or three points run into a loss of ten points.
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This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
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No one is any more or any less important than you are.
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
