Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
Nancy Pearcey
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
E. O. Wilson
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
Manuel Puig
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
Candice Swanepoel
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
Ralph Cudworth
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I had already played a lead on Broadway before I ever did a film. I had had three, four seasons of stock with good, fat parts, good supporting and leading parts. And I had done, oh, God, over 400 live TV shows.
Jack Lemmon
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If we say that we believe in democracy, if we say that the fabric of a democratic society is one which allows for the free play of idea...then, in the name of all the gods, give that free play a chance to work within the constitutional framework.
Lee Kuan Yew
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He Goya has selected from amongst the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society, and from the common prejudices and deceitful practices which custom, ignorance or self-interest have made usual..
Francisco Goya
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We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren't careful.
Marie Lu
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I think, the argument sometimes that I've had with folks who are much more interested in sort of race-specific programs is less an argument about what is practically achievable and sometimes maybe more an argument of "We want society to see what's happened, and internalize it, and answer it in demonstrable ways." And those impulses I very much understand.
Barack Obama
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From an acting standpoint, when I was a kid, I thought I knew everything there was to know. As the years go by, this craft becomes more intensive as I get older. You realize how much more there is to know and to learn, and how much better you can get, if you really work at it.
Kevin Bacon
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
