Edward Bunker Quotes
But the human mind, when it reaches the bottom of the abyss, must bounce back or disintegrate entirely.
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Work builds and refines character, creates beauty, and is the instrument of our service to one another and to God.
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I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
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Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.
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There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.
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He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.
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There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.
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When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to.
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If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.
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Sometimes you sacrifice too much. You find yourself out on a limb and not knowing really quite how to get back down the tree. But it’s the space that you’re in because you have taken the risk. I’m not unaware of the sacrifices and, at times, whom your compassion hurts. It’s not all moving in one direction. It’s complicated, as the work is complicated.
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What isn't tried won't work.
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Women are exciting for this one reason - it is the secret of women's allure - women enjoy submission, being bound. This I bring out in the Paradise Island sequences where the girls beg for chains and enjoy wearing them. Because all of this is a universal truth, a fundamental subconscious feeling of normal humans, the children love it. That is why they like Wonder Woman on Paradise Island better than anywhere else.
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I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character.
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Most women do not have [abortions] with some sort of party going on. It is the hardest decision that a woman ever has to make . . . One of the reasons we've had to make this decision is because so many women were found bleeding, dead, with hangers in their bodies because they were doing it themselves. The idea of this was to make it safe and clean - that was the reason the law came into effect.
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Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.
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But the human mind, when it reaches the bottom of the abyss, must bounce back or disintegrate entirely.
