Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
Douglass North
Recitation: by Male by Female
People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.
Robert J. Waldinger
LiveHealthHappyPeopleBrainFind
The American war-writing tradition is a proud one and booming in this era of the Global War on Terror - at least in the nonfiction realm. Hundreds of memoirs and press accounts from Iraq and Afghanistan have been published since 9/11.
Matt Gallagher
WarProudAmericanTraditionBeen
I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet fallen at my father's knees. I have not yet begun to put away from me the enticements of my former riotous living.
St. Jerome
FatherSonI AmMeLivingWasted
Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government.
Sun Myung Moon
GovernmentControlYouSayDaughters
We refuse to recognize problems of form, but only problems of building. Form is not the aim of our work, but only the result. Form, by itself, does not exist. Form as an aim is formalism; and that we reject.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
WorkBuildingProblemsResultAim
Joe Kennedy was a massive figure on all kinds of levels.
Jason Clarke
KindsFigureMassiveJoeLevels
Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters.
Diedrich Bader
LearnEnoughLongYouListenImprov
I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.
Donny Osmond
MusicPeoplePoliticalEnjoyTryUp
You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
Conor Cruise O'Brien
YouDownComfortableWillCertainty
Good things happen to those who hustle.
Chuck Noll
WorkGoodGood ThingsHustleHappen
The math of quantum mechanics and the math of general relativity, when they confront one another, they are ferocious antagonists and the equations don't work.
Brian Greene
WorkMathQuantumRelativityGeneral
I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
PeopleMeThinkSeeingScreen
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