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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The blessing is that my kids have a lot of strong men and strong marriages around them, so I feel like they are getting what they need as far as role modeling. So I don't feel the pressure for them.
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Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society, L. Easton, trans. (1967), p. 36
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You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.
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When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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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.
