Benjamin Rush Quotes
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I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.
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I always get bored with my hair. That's why I would always change it throughout my career.
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To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
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If you are really great, you will let others discover this fact from your actions.
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The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
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There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.
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When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.
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Gravity is a response to geometry.
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With ills unending strives the putter off.
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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer.
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The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
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Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.
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I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism.
