Benjamin Rush Quotes
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.
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The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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There are good men out there. There are guys who have their priorities straight, who take care of their kids, who respect their mothers.
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We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.
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It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?
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Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests our friend.
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There's a lot of mythological stories you can tell. There's not just one. I appreciate all of those different kinds, but what I was personally missing was grand, classic, true-north hero. Pure and simple emotion, and also aiming for big time emotion, like love story as well, in a very sincere way. Like 'Superman: The Movie' had done for me.
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
