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No bubble is so iridescent or floats longer than that blown by the successful teacher.
The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.
The mounted knight is irresistible; he would bore his way through the walls of Babylon.
There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
Art, especially the stage, is an area where it is impossible to walk without stumbling.
Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
The image that concerns most people is the reflection they see in other people's minds.
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message
Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.
Hillary Clinton, like Bill [Clinton], you know, they're not the solution to the crisis.
Big Money politicians do not have a new form of entitlement. They do not own our votes.
Most doctors are uncomfortable with medical conditions that have a psychological basis.
People are hungry in these communities. They don't know how they are going to get food.
The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.
A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Walking is easiest, you don't need a lot of apparatus. Just shoe leather and good feet.
What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.
It's easy to forget that for centuries - for millennia - the 'workforce' was all of us.
If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.
Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.
As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air
Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day.
Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.
First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.
The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.
Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.
The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face
Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted.
For much of my career, I've studied health and how it's intrinsically tied to lifestyle.
Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.
We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.
I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
With the proper diet, no doctor is necessary. With the improper diet, no doctor can help
Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.
I dont make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.