Mark Skousen Quotes
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
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I am grateful that as a reporter and as an anchor, people have allowed me to share their stories.
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There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Yes, I am very prolific.
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Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.
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I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.
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'Breaking Bad' has definitely opened many, many doors for me.
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Although he moved away from the Midwest for good at the age of thirteen, Ray Bradbury is a prairie writer. The prairie is in his voice, and it is his moral compass. It is his years spent in Waukegan, Illinois - later rechristened by Ray as 'Green Town' in many books and stories - that forever shaped him.
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The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.
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If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.
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Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.
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In Mexico you have death very close. That's true for all human beings because it's a part of life, but in Mexico, death can be found in many things.
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Where I'm from, there is no violence, pretty much.
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth.
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It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?
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To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism - even in what we take to be the ordinary fabric and intent of language. Nothing is like 'The Hunger Artist.' Nothing is like 'The Metamorphosis.'
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Some of the best things...take time.
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By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.
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I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.
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The media simply does not understand Econ 101.
