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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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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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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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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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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As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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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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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of power.
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Complexity is not a goal. I don't want to be remembered as an engineer of complex systems.
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I just take it as it comes, and if I'm not offered something, there's always a reason, and usually it's a pretty good one. I'm not worried about it. You know, I've had an incredible career, and I'm blessed.
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Without religion, I believe that learning does real mischief to the morals and principles of mankind.
