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The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition. Thus we have two great types -- the advanced person who rushes us into ruin, and the retrospective person who admires the ruins. He admires them especially by moonlight, not to say moonshine. Each new blunder of the progressive or prig becomes instantly a legend of immemorial antiquity for the snob. This is called the balance, or mutual check, in our Constitution.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

added by Normando
5 months ago

It can cause primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a brain infection that may result when water containing the amoeba rushes up the nose and reaches the brain, the infection is extremely rare, but nearly always fatal.

health department

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As for blood sugar, what is likely to happen is that as an abnormally high level of sugar rushes into your bloodstream, your pancreas releases a larger than normal level of insulin to help store or utilize those sugars, which is that sugar ‘high’ and then ‘crash,’.

Sarah Rueven

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think it was just too sloppy, we were too loose on them in our defensive end and just gave them too many odd-man rushes. We had to rely on Kuemp way too much.

Christian Dvorak

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Alan Watts

added by Normando
3 years ago

I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen.

Jacqueline Bisset

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

We have a situation where we're looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms where you turn the faucet on -- and in areas where there's tremendous amounts of water, where the water rushes out to sea because you could never handle it, and you don't get any water, you turn on the faucet and you don't get any water. They take a shower and water comes dripping out. Just dripping out, very quietly dripping out. People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once.

President Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We have a situation where we're looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms where you turn the faucet on -- and in areas where there's tremendous amounts of water, where the water rushes out to sea because you could never handle it, and you don't get any water, you turn on the faucet and you don't get any water. They take a shower and water comes dripping out. Just dripping out, very quietly dripping out.

The President

Found on CNN
4 years ago

All of a sudden, the door on the north side of the room slams open. A guy rushes in, pulls up a gun with his right hand... and began firing at the far north corner table, he didn't speak a word -- just ran in and started shooting.

Joshua Ayers

Found on CNN
5 years ago

No matter how fast blood rushes in, it leaves just as fast, so those patients can never achieve fully rigid erections.

Peter Stahl

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It's in Russia's interest ... to portray the United States as riven with popular discontent, xenophobia and high-level political corruption, it fits nicely with the Kremlin's standard narrative ... that the White House rushes to criticize others without getting its own house in order.

Andrew Weiss

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Talent moves like this are incredibly complex, unfortunately, everybody wants to hold back all communications until every single detail is worked out and by then the 'news' rushes out of the room and you can't control it.I'm sure they wanted to treat her right, but they clearly wanted to hold back communicating with anyone, including her, until everything was nailed down.Precisely the moment when everything barrels forward, you lose control of it.

Scot Safon

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Tennessee Williams

added by anonymous
10 years ago

My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits its form to things it meets: unknowable. What can be known is, it always goes where it must go, always stops where it cannot help stopping -- nothing else. More than that, even I cannot know.

Su Shih

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

Al Bernstein

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Haniel Long

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

Margaret Fuller

added by anonymous
14 years ago

She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.

Willa Cather

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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