Oswald Spengler Quotes
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I'm not a control freak.
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The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz.
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Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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I don't read the critics.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.
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I take no pride in having been the first public personality to come out publicly against Simpson. It just happened that way.
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But you've got to make choices, and you're not going to be right all the time.
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What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
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Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.
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Union can achieve everything when sustained by gallant hearts and correct principles, while anarchy and insubordination must fail in the achievement of every thing beneficial and glorious to mankind.
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It seemed, indeed, that the study of light-scattering might carry one into the deepest problems of physics and chemistry, and it was this belief which led to the subject becoming the main theme of our activities at Calcutta from that time onwards.
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I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.
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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment, but the manufacture of a saint is the task of a lifetime.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461