Benjamin Rush Quotes
Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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I belong on the stage. I love how the day's events, whatever you read in the newspapers or watch on the TV, are reflected in the performance and how it's received.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.
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I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
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Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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I speak my mind. I just speak my heart. I will not turn away from any question.
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When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.
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I always feel discontent, like there's somewhere else to go, somewhere else to be. I'm a very ambitious person.
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The tragic thing about the Internet is that you can find out way too much, way too quickly.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
