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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To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
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Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by which so many of the laws of the physical world have been numbered among truths irrevocably acquired and universally assented to, can be made instrumental to the gradual formation of a similar body of received doctrine in moral and political science.
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You hit those valleys sometimes and it's really frustrating. It's like getting stuck in traffic on the freeway. But there's not much you can do about it.
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The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.
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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.
