Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think. In fact, it's not on my radar at all. If there's anything negative, I don't want to know about it. I just do my own thing and get on with my life.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
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I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.
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I've always been a bit of an inventor, just making up weird things people haven't thought of before. I can't tell you exactly what, though, because they might actually happen one day!
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I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.
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Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do.
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Piet van Oostrum: I find this a nice feature but it is not according to the documentation. Or is it a BUG?Larry Wall: Let's call it an accidental feature.
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Few persons are prevented from thinking themselves right by the reflection that, if they be right, the rest of the world is wrong.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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The spirit of graft and of lawlessness is the American spirit.
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It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.
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I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.
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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
