Dan Heisman Quotes
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban areas.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.
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He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.
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After India and China, Indonesia was the biggest new nation-state to emerge in the mid-twentieth century.
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The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
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The whole 'School of Rock' experience was really cool, and just meeting new people from all over.
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I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.
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My hair walks into a room before I do.
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As I considered the matter carefully it gradually came to light that all those matters only were referred to mathematics in which order and measurements are investigated, and that it makes no difference whether it be in numbers, figures, stars, sounds or any other object that the question of measurement arises. I saw consequently that there must be some general science to explain that element as a whole which gives rise to problems about order and measurement, restricted as these are to no special subject matter. This, I perceived was called 'universal mathematics'.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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Whether something is sensible or not is subjective. What is sensible to me might not be for others.
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Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.
