Edward Tenner Quotes
One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
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In Russia, or anywhere, people don't like rich people. Yeah, OK, I have money, but the question is how I use it. It's not easy, believe me; it's not easy.
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Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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If not shown appreciation, it gets to you.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing.
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What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.
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The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.
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One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.
