Benjamin Rush Quotes
The first thing I would recommend to put a stop to slavery in this country, is to leave off importing slaves. For this purpose let our assemblies unite in petitioning the king and parliament to dissolve the African committee of merchants: It is by them that the trade is chiefly carried on to America.
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Due to my hectic work schedule, I hardly have enough sleep, and my skin tends to look dull. Facial masks are my savior, as it helps to brighten and hydrate my skin.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.
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Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
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The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.
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I dish the dirt out and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it?
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Leaving the E.U. would mean the 'Guernseyfication' of the U.K., which would then be a little country on the world scale. It would isolate itself and become a trading post and arbitration place at Europe's border.
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The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.
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The first thing I would recommend to put a stop to slavery in this country, is to leave off importing slaves. For this purpose let our assemblies unite in petitioning the king and parliament to dissolve the African committee of merchants: It is by them that the trade is chiefly carried on to America.
