Benjamin Rush Quotes
Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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I think it's our job to create a culture and an environment where a gay player knows he is safe and welcome. If and when that happens, believe me - that person will have the full support of the commissioner's office.
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Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.
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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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There's a seven disc C.D. changer in her car, and I'm in every single slot, and you're not.
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The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
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I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes.
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There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'
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We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
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You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.
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If you are what you eat then feed me dope.
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At the same time younger children are buffered by birth order from their parents' sole concentration. Hence they are treated with more indulgence and are called upon less to take on responsibilities.
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There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
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Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.
