Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE Indian school system and thus, my younger brother Ishmeet and I were put in an all-boys CBSE school. My mother could move out only if she wore a burkha.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.
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It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
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In my career as a writer, I preferred to avoid current events: I wrote young adult novels and book reviews and lifestyle journalism about health and parenting and other such evergreens.
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You can keep the dining room clean by eating in the kitchen.
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'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line
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The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
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Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make.
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I'm a real goof-ball deep down. It's always been my thing to make people like me.
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You wouldn't know it but I'm no good at... cooking. My chef does that.
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I'm not a theatrics guy who does things for effect. Whatever comes out is what I feel. It just comes out.
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No one is strong in himself, but God gives strength.
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Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.
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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
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You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.
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No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.
