Benjamin Rush Quotes
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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In other restaurants you'll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.
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It is not possible for a person to be completely free of sin and be squeaky clean.
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I can't do anything in moderation.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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When I was auditioning for 'True Grit,' I was on the Paramount lot. I was wearing clothes from the 1800s that were big and uncomfortable.
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When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
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My siblings were pretty far apart in age, so I sort of grew up as an only child.
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One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.
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It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.
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Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.
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Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.
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I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.
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It is not necessary to ask whether soul and body are one, just as it is not necessary to ask whether the wax and its shape are one, nor generally whether the matter of each thing and that of which it is the matter are one. For even if one and being are spoken of in several ways, what is properly so spoken of is the actuality.
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Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.
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The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don't have PhDs.
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Discovering that our solar system has many more planets than we ever expected, and that most of them are ice dwarfs rather than like Earth and the other rocky terrestrials, is just another step in the revolution in viewpoint that removed the Earth from the center of the physical universe and makes Earth all the more special.
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I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.
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My parents never ceased to struggle, but in witnessing their lives, I learned more about natural industry and leadership than in any classroom.
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Undoubtedly many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.
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The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
