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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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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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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I envisioned all these people who had been admired for having been freaks in their own time, and I saw myself in line with them.
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Mixed Martial Arts is wonderful to watch, it is very practical but dangerous at the same time. You have to be very careful when doing something like that.
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People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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The living ideas of the dead are more powerful and effective than the dead ideas of the living.
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For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.
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We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
