Careful Quotes - Page 24

• A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.

  Richard Louv

  Giving Up, Thinking, People

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• The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest through the wide range of linguistics, archeology, folklore, philology, ethnobotany, plant ecology, human physiology, and prehistory constitutes an object lesson to all holistic professional students of man.

  Weston La Barre

  Men, Stories, Quests

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• As someone who has been asked to ask David Lynch what his movies mean for 25 years, I'm very careful about asking artists what their art means.

  Laura Dern

  Art, Mean, Artist

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• That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater Respect among the common People.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Men, People

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• Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Horse, Republic, Influence

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.427

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• Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Love, Passion, Independent

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XXI, 1840.

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• [T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Eye, Government, Giving

  Benjamin Franklin (1835). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin”, p.221

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• Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license.

  Confucius

  Character, Men, Practice

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.28, Delphi Classics

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• Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently controlled vehicles whose origin is outside our solar system. All the arguments against the extraterrestrial origin seem to be based upon false reasoning, misrepresentation of evidence, neglect of relevant information, ignorance of relevant technology, or pseudo sophisticated assumptions about alien appearance, motivation, or government secrecy...

  Stanton T. Friedman

  Motivation, Ignorance, Technology

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• Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

  Michael Ventura

  Historical, Enemy, Suffering

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• I was really careful in making monsters faint rather than die. I think that young people playing games have an abnormal concept about dying. They start to lose and say, ‘I’m dying.’ It’s not right for kids to think about a concept of death that way. They need to treat death with more respect.

  Satoshi Tajiri

  Kids, Thinking, Games

  "The Ultimate Game Freak". The TIME Magazine Interview, content.time.com. November 22, 1999.

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• As long as you remember that if you get involved in politics, you have to be very careful that your leader is for Allah. You don't get involved in politics because it's the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.

  Siraj Wahhaj

  Long, Leader, Islam

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• As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Stories, Be Careful, Humans

  "‘True Detective’ creator Nic Pizzolatto talks season 1". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. March 9, 2014.

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• You have to be really careful to watch out for the difference between banding together, and being grouped together by people who don't understand you.

  Jenny Slate

  Differences, People, Together

  "Gillian Robespierre and Jenny Slate on finding Obvious Child's voice". Interview with Nathan Rabin, thedissolve.com. June 03, 2014.

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• Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides. Give, share, lose—lest we die, unbloomed.

  Austin Bunn

  Ignorance, Long, Giving

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• Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Long, Rust, Detectives

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• I wish somebody had told me to start using sunscreen when I was younger 'cause I grew up in the '70s... and at that time, I used to coat my body with baby oil. I think it's so important that we learn to be as careful as we possibly can and not only for beauty, but for skincare.

  Elle Macpherson

  Baby, Thinking, Oil

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• I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. But when dealing with the Iron, one must be careful to interpret the pain correctly. Most injuries involving the Iron come from ego. I once spent a few weeks lifting weight that my body wasn’t ready for and spent a few months not picking up anything heavier than a fork. Try to lift what you’re not prepared to and the Iron will teach you a little lesson in restraint and self-control.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Fighting, Greatness

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• I think you have to earn beauty. You can use it or abuse it however you want when you`re young. It`s a God-given gift. You have a visiting card - you can go into any room and someone will come and talk to you. But I`ve always thought from very early on that you have to be careful with that - not being vain or narcissistic. Have fun, but don`t be obsessed with it.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Fun, Thinking, Abuse

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think Dan [Rather] is transparently liberal.  Now he may not like to hear me say that.  I always agree with him, too.  But I think he should be more careful.

  Andy Rooney

  Thinking, May, Should

  "Norman Lear's Left-Wing Paranoia About "The Right" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 29, 2011.

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• I think because I was brought up in a Christian home, I was kind of careful not to swear in my lyrics.

  Avril Lavigne

  Christian, Home, Thinking

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• Boys flying kites haul in their white winged birds; You can't do that way when you're flying words. Careful with fire, is good advice we know Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God Himself can't kill them when they're said.

  Will Carleton

  Fall, Boys, Fire

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• My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes for fear of treachery; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Heart, Thinking

  Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. August 19, 1588.

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• We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

  Alain de Botton

  Envy, Trying, Diaries

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2012

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• Church of Jesus, let us please be men and women who understand the difference between moralism and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Let’s be careful to preach the dos and don’ts of Scripture in the shadow of the cross’s ‘Done!’

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Men, Differences

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