Benjamin Rush Quotes
Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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Lesson from Pataki's success is: Use the political moment.
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If someone says: "I don't want to have a cochlear implant, because I want my child to grow up with a rich sense of deaf culture," he must acknowledge that the deaf culture that exists in the world today has a different scale than the deaf culture that's likely to exist in the world 50 years from now.
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Never stop fighting till the fight is done.
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Probably, violent things I've done when I was younger, was probably the most despicable thing that I've ever done.
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The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesnt. They can build up fighters or knock them down.
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
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What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.
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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
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O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water" (Psalm 63:1). We may imagine we want a thousand different things, but God is the one we really long for. His presence brings satisfaction; his absence brings thirst and longing.
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Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.
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Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.
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I will reflect a thousand times over before I allow the German Volk to become entangled in agreements whose consequences are not readily evident.
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I believe in the resonance and staying power of quiet photographs. These photographs required a certain seeing, but few special techniques, and no tricks. Something though was hard. It was hard being between photographs and not knowing when or how another image would reveal itself.
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Some of my best men are women!
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He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
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Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.
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In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should.
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The most terrible thing of all is happy love, for then there is fear in everything.
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Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.
