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My first date has been...mythologized as 'Bieber's Dating Disaster.' I took her to a buffet restaurant. Yes, I wore a white shirt. Yes, I got… — Justin Bieber
The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it. — Roger Babson
Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary — Saint Augustine
Since Christ is the only way to the Father, in order to highlight His living and saving presence in the Church and the world, the… — Pope John Paul II
It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids! — Milton Berle
Millions of people have tried meditation and dropped out of it because they took it very seriously. Religion has been thought to be a very… — Rajneesh
Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I… — Woodrow Wilson
I took it to heart that in order to be a good person; you never said anything mean about anybody. — Carly Simon
The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new… — Freeman Dyson
This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to… — Origen
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid… — Joyce Carol Oates
When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said, "Look, twins!" — Rodney Dangerfield
In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great man knew not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took… — Harry Browne
I took his suggestion to heart and went from a "know-it-all" to a "learn-it-all." — T. Harv Eker
For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from… — Herman Boerhaave
I therefore took this opportunity and also began to consider the possibility that the Earth moved. Although it seemed an absurd opinion, nevertheless, because I… — Nicolaus Copernicus
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem… — Steven Chu
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the… — Arthur Koestler
Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy. — James C. Collins
What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of… — Thomas Kuhn
We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't… — Edwin Land
[My father] advised me to sit every few months in my reading chair for an entire evening, close my eyes and try to think of… — Luis Walter Alvarez
One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages… — Lawrence Block

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