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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John Marks Templeton has achieved exemplary success in both business and philanthropy. For Looking Forward he has assembled a diverse and remarkable group of experts in their fields-including the environment, medicine, the physical sciences, religion, the family, and international relations-and contributed two stellar pieces as well. Together these essays dispel fashionable pessimism and show how the world can progress-and is progressing-toward a better future.
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I'm excited by the complete shift in attitudes. Twenty years ago, when I did my first report on colorectal cancer, there was tremendous resistance (from news directors).
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White man goes into his churches to talk about Jesus, the Indian into his Tepee to talk to Jesus (with Peyote etc).
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You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.
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We are born into God’s kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
