Charles Mackay Quotes
War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.
Quotes to Explore
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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I believe in forgiveness.
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Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.
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The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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All the sciences in the world never smoothed down a dying pillow. No earthly philosophy ever supplied hope in death.
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The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.
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War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.
