Andrew Tobias Quotes
Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.
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There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
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I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
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I'm a believer. I'm one of the few standing before you today from a large financial services company that has not given up on digital currencies.
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Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.
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I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
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I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figuratives or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.
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The discharge of a duty from affection is the best solace for sorrow.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don't think it explains individual species evolution at all well.
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Health insurance should be a given for every citizen.
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The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased their striking power it has sharpened their anxiety and deepened their sense of insecurity.
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I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.
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I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
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We need to create a world that is equitable, that is stable and a world where we bear in mind the needs of others, and not only what we need immediately. We are all in the same boat.
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Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
