Frederick Pollock Quotes
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.Frederick Pollock
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When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.
Nancy Willard -
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Fareed Zakaria -
The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
Lafcadio Hearn -
It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
Umberto Eco -
China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
Gary Locke -
Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
Malcolm Boyd
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If I could meet Quentin Tarantino, I don't know if I'd just ask him one question. I'd probably milk it into, like, 500 questions.
Madison Davenport -
Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
Tawakkol Karman -
Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
Natasha Little -
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
Edith Wharton -
The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
Barry Silbert -
Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
Patrick Whitesell
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
Malachy McCourt -
I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
Victoria Justice -
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu -
We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
Kate Clinton -
I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
Victoria Woodhull
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This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
Natan Sharansky -
It's important that if one opposes discriminatory speech, one opposes all kinds. That is that one decides on a principle that it will include all minorities. But if the protection of one minority against another minority is what is happening, then I worry about that.
Judith Butler -
As long as offices are open to all men and no constitutional rank is established, it is pure republicanism.
Alexander Hamilton -
It's nice to win.
Bess Truman -
My credentials, briefly: I no longer go to church or believe in God, but I can still name every one of the fruits of the Spirit and reeled for days upon hearing the announcement that Audio Adrenaline was reunited with one of the singers from DC Talk.
Mallory Ortberg -
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
Frederick Pollock