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George Bancroft Quotes

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

George Bancroft

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: October 3, 1800 - January 17, 1891

Topics

Intelligence Progress Mind Measure

If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.

Joe Rogan

Time People Think Someone Actor

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

John Lurie

Experience Trying Early Late Years

I sometimes work with a communications and media training firm called KNP Communications. It's nice to bring the research to the practitioners; I learn a lot watching how they put it into practice, and I know they like to be on top of what's happening on the research front.

Amy Cuddy

Work Training Practice Research Nice

Belonging to one party is acceptable. But my days of just ticking the party box are long over. I judge the candidates for who they are.

Rob Lowe

Judge Long Party Belonging Over Box

I feel that everything has to come from the heart, and it cannot come from the intellect.

Ruth Bernhard

Heart Feel Everything Intellect Come

The tongue should express what is in the heart.

Dayananda Saraswati

Heart Tongue Should Express

I try to do something active everyday. Liking what you're doing makes working out enjoyable.

Christine Lakin

Doing You Everyday Try Active Out

I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen. Then I work on a word processor using a different desk and a different room.

Colm Toibin

Work I Am Long Pen Desk Fountain

I think my heart always goes out to men at the peak of their celebrity who checked out. There's such an odd, horrible trend in my lifetime for it - Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace, Alexander McQueen, Heath Ledger.

Chuck Palahniuk

Heart Men Think Celebrity Out Trend

People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet.

Brian Williams

People Start Internet Hands Ready

I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.

Woody Harrelson

Strength Best Together People Unity

Children, if they haven't been introduced to foods by the time they're 3 years old, are afraid of it, as if it would hurt them. They don't really get out of that until they're 6 or 7 - it's a safety mechanism, and you're not going to win.

Tyler Florence

Children Time Safety Win Hurt You