Abraham Flexner Quotes
Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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Pain is never permanent.
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A company that can't fire people well is like a forest that never has a fire. It becomes overgrown, full of weeds, and it fails.
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I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I think it would have been an even stronger story if Tolkien had left him dead.
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My calling was first of all to ensure there was peace in the country, because we could easily have gone back to war. In the midst of the country, there were still warlords; there were many child soldiers who had never gone to school - they were part of the social setting - compromises had to be made.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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It's my job as governor to set a vision.
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
