Charles B. Rangel (Charles Bernard Rangel) Quotes
A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.Charles B. Rangel
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I record it here today to establish my early predisposition to editorial work - to be both pontifical and wrong.
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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
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I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
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Venezuela, given its extraordinary educational, cultural, and social developments, and its vast energy and natural resources, is called on to become a revolutionary model for the world.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many courses on the American colonial era and westward expansion as I could. This turned out to be wonderful preparation for writing fantasy novels.
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I'm of the opinion that science fiction writers suck at predicting the future. We mostly go around describing the present in futuristic clothes - (such as) Mary Shelley, Bill Gibson, and many others.
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The essential dilemma of education is to be found in the fact that the sort of man (or woman) who knows a given subject sufficiently well to teach it is usually unwilling to do so.
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中國人的性情是總喜歡調和折中的，譬如你說，這屋子太暗，須在這裏開一個窗，大家一定不允許的。但如果你主張拆掉屋頂他們就來調和，願意開窗了。
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Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.
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A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.
Charles B. Rangel
