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There's nothing like a little physical pain to keep your mind off your emotional problems.
Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.
God is the true realistic point where human reason mostly, if not completely, breaks down.
The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.
Make it clear up front what the aim of the company is. Stay true to your authentic vision.
Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.
I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.
An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.
The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.
He foresaw that she would be very much more useful to him in the character of a free woman.
To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.
To deal with future we have to deal with possibilities. Analysis will only tell us what is.
By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy
Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.
I don't use those terms [like Uncle Tom], and I would never speak in that kind of language.
One of the great things about running with Ajamu Baraka is that we speak to all of America.
The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.
I wanted to be a scientist, but I wanted to go into space. They are not mutually exclusive.
To survive as a species on this planet, we're going to have to see ourselves as Earthlings.
A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.
A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done
Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.
Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, Im going to teach you otherwise.
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
You have to have passion for everything you do, and you've got to look at the positive side.
The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.
You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.
It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.
When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.
No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.
Just just because there are flaws in aircraft design that doesn't mean flying carpets exist.
What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.
If you want to win anything - a race, yourself, your life - you have to go a little berserk.
Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.
Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.
Having money might not buy happiness, but how you spend it could actually make a difference.
If pigs could fly, yes, of course I would vote for the Democratic Party, but pigs don't fly.
Hillary Clinton says one thing herself, but she has other people who are floating her plans.
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.