Benjamin F. Wade Quotes
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.
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Everybody grows but me.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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Some members of the Vienna Philharmonic convinced me to try Bruckner, which I have never done before. And that was interesting to me to have this experience with this orchestra, which knows the repertoire very well, and to be confronted with this knowledge, and to learn from them.
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Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.
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Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.
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You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is.. God help him.
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In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.
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I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
