Lyman Beecher Quotes
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
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Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I never said half the things I said.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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To me, if we're not failing a little bit, we're not trying hard enough. I think great cultures encourage risk and are tolerant of failure. If you don't do that, you're going to end up with a culture that is stagnant and not thinking about the next generation of products and experiences.
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Researchers keep identifying new species, but they have no idea about the life cycle of a given species or its other hosts. They cut open an animal and find a new species. Where did it come from? What effect does it have on its host? What is its next host? They don't know and they don't have time to find out, because there are too many other species waiting to be discovered and described.
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It is not a little Surprising that Christianity, whose chief excellence consists of softening the human heart, in cherishing and improving its finer Feelings, should encourage a Practice so totally repugnant to the first Impression of Right and Wrong. What adds to the wonder is that this Abominable Practice has been introduced in the most enlightened Ages.
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Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
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Before I go to bed at night, I ice my face, because it closes your pores and makes a difference in the morning.
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No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
