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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There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.
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Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this atomic energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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And now, Uastis, get up. This room is architecturally designed to please the eye, and your present position mars it for me.
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No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
