E. P. Thompson Quotes
For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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Even the superstars need to be coached once in awhile.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.
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Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each other and simultaneously curse Leven.
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As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.
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I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that.
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The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.
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I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
