Cotton Mather Quotes
You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you. Withhold thy throat from thirst. Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. ... let not the Circean cup intoxicate you.
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I don't want to be attached to a catheter. I saw all that stuff happen to my father, and as much as it upset me because I loved my father so much, it also really traumatized me.
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German, and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle.
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If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.
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Only legislative, judicial, and executive action can completely guarantee the victory of the free world.
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I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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When you battle Nancy Pelosi as much as I have, you're bound to get a few wrinkles.
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Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves.
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
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I do not fear anybody on the field or in society, but I fear at night when I am away from my parents. I am scared of the unknown described in horror movies.
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When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and we would make up radio shows and become disc jockeys on our home wire recorder. And then came rock and roll.
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For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.
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To be a good actor you really have to want to act first.
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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.
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Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.
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I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.
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In April 2013, a few weeks before DSM-V was formally released, NIMH director Thomas Insel announced that his agency could no longer support DSM’s “symptom-based diagnosis.”32 Instead the institute would focus its funding on what are called Research Domain Criteria (RDoC)33 to create a framework for studies that would cut across current diagnostic categories.
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You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you. Withhold thy throat from thirst. Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. ... let not the Circean cup intoxicate you.
