Christopher Dawson Quotes
The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
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As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
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Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.
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The Statist has an insatiable appetite for control. His sights are set on his next meal even before he has fully digested his last. He is constantly agitating for government action. And in furtherance of that purpose, the Statist speaks in the tongue of the demagogue, concocting one pretext and grievance after another to manipulate public perceptions and build popular momentum for the divestiture of liberty and property from its rightful possessors.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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I've often thought that if planners were botanists, zoologists, geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.
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The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.
