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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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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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 loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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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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It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.
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The Pork Marketing Board worked with advertising and marketing firms to position the pig as a sort of four-legged chicken - a healthy part of any low-fat lifestyle. The Other White Meat campaign launched in 1987 and was so successful at selling lean pork cuts, it actually hurt the rest of the pig.
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You can't be new for too long. You want to just respectfully disappear. It's a bit sad sometimes. Michael Jordan retired like a god, and then he came back... We don't want to go out like that.
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God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.
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It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.
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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.
