Benjamin Rush Quotes
If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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When you look at my record at 10-0 as a professional and look at Jon Jones' record when he was 10-0, who was his toughest guy? Stephan Bonnar, and he did not finish him. I have fought higher-caliber opponents at this stage in my career than Jon did in his at 9-1; His tenth fight was Matt Hammil.
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Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like 'free speech' or 'due process' - or potato chip.
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I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.
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Word-for-word transcription of Scully's call of the ninth inning of Sandy Koufax's perfect game on September 9, 1965
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Money is the source of the greatest vice, & that Nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
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I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.
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I eat healthy, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy myself. I eat ice cream and chocolate, as my metabolism is pretty fast because I work out so much.
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I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day.
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Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I've done with Almodovar.
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Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.
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If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.
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The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.
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My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.
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I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this, they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Gandhi Jesus that exists in their imaginations isn't anything like the real Jesus at all.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.
