Emma Goldman Quotes
The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.
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Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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The illegal wildlife trade threatens not only the survival of entire species, such as elephants and rhinos, but also the livelihoods and, often, the very lives of millions of people across Africa who depend on tourism for a living.
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For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evaluation of the interrelationships among the components of the present-day society.
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At first I thought I should be a second Beethoven; presently I found that to be another Schubert would be good; then gradually, satisfied with less and less, I resigned to be a Humperdinck.
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The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events.
