Dean Acheson Quotes
'Force can overcome force, but a free society cannot long steel itself to dominate another people by sheer force.'
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I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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As long as they keep building settlements, the world will be anti-Israeli.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.
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What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
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I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
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I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
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Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.
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I've seen a couple white girls coming to my concerts wearing head wraps, and I think they look so cute. It's kind of sad to see that people are really into separation, trying to separate everybody and making a clear division of 'us against you,' even with fashion. That sucks. It's not the way the world is supposed to be.
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I find it difficult to attend autopsies. Especially the smells.
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People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.
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If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat.
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I would love to go on 'The Biggest Loser,' where it's a concentrated thing.
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The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.
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'Force can overcome force, but a free society cannot long steel itself to dominate another people by sheer force.'
