Bill Toomey Quotes
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
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There is no one true church.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
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I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.
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The course of development
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Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
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Rubberband man, wide as the teleband9 on my right, .45 in my otha hand
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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
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'And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.'
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I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.
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This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
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..I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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The history of man is a compendium of such evil. We are an evolutionary product, descendants of predators. A few synthetic foods aside, every morsel eaten by man is taken from another living thing. We are intended for murder; we kill to exist!
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I try to cultivate friendships, because they are great assets. And I tend to make them last over time. Nevertheless sometimes they end mysteriously and you don't really know for what reason. Just like loves.=
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.
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One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.
