Abraham Flexner Quotes
The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
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It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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There are, essentially, as many opinions on marriage as there are people in the world.
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I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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The demand that school finances be transferred away from local school districts to the state and/or federal government has been a long-time favorite of the educationist lobbies.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
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People hate the feeling that technology is dragging them into the future, that they're not really following what's happening, but being forced to be involved. Even if it makes their life better, it still feels like it's happening against their will.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
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My whole life had been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first [compost] heap.
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Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way.
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The real enemy is the man who tries to mold the human spirit so that it will not dare to spread its wings.
