Brand Blanshard Quotes
Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.
Quotes to Explore
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.
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I love the hip-hop nation.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
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It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
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Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.
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If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.
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I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.
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You want to empower people who think like you do.
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So long as it doesn't get to the point where you don't remember whose opera you're listening to, I'm willing to experiment.
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Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.
