Marion LeRoy Burton famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, and a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intempe diet.
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Character is formed, not by laws, commands, and decrees, but by quiet influence, unconscious suggestion and personal guidance.
-- Marion LeRoy Burton
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As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.
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All healthy men have thought of their own suicide
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Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.
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I had the constitution of a missionary.
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Psychotherapy, unlike castor oil, which will work no matter how you get it down, is useless when forced on an uncooperative patient.
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To fight, we must have oil for our machine.
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American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil,
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I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered difficult economics problems, when really they have done little more than learn the language in which parts of those problems can be expressed, and the machinery by which they can be handled. When the actual conditions of particular problems have not been studied, such knowledge is little better than a derrick for sinking oil-wells erected where there are no oil-bearing strata.
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From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.
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The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'
