Eugene J. Martin Quotes
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We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent.
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One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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We must learn two things. One is to see ourselves as others see us. We apply one yardstick when we wish to appraise other people. Secondly, we cannot succeed in anything if we act in fear of other people's opinions.
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I can see the advantage because this gives you a clear direction of where to go.
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I knelt by the design. Yes, there was the sun rising. But the white form I had always thought to be a cloud was a bear. I could see it now, upside down. White bear, isbjorn, stood for north. Father had not been able to help himself. The truth was there, too. Truth and lie, side by side.
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Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
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I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.
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I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.'
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.
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A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.
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In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.
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Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.
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Defensive thinkers best defend themselves from knowing who they are.
