Edwin Boring Quotes
Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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I used to work for a catering company - I waitressed for Harry Winston events. I remember being so hungry, I would eat when I was supposed to be catering to other people.
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I feel better all day if I start off by eating healthy. Breakfast is simple: multigrain toast with natural peanut butter, oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, or healthy cereal.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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I’m not a particularly ideological person. There’s things, some values I feel passionately about.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
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Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
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I think I'm happier with that. $rubyometer += 0.3 or so.
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The impression was gaining ground with me that it was a good thing to let the money be my slave and not make myself a slave to money.
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(singing) Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O!/
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I could never have signed this treaty. I hope that that is clear to all who have heard me.
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La tierra tiene lo que tú levantas de la tierra. Nada más tiene.
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I never really lost touch with video games. Even while shooting '10 Cloverfield Lane,' I brought my PlayStation with me, the most portable of all the consoles, and was playing every night.
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Traffic was like a bad dog. It wasn't important to look both ways when crossing the street; it was important to not show fear.
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This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.
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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.
