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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 solitary drinking that makes drunkards.
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The fact that I am a woman has never really played into what I have done or not done. I have just been lucky that things have played out so that I could do things.
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Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
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Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.
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When we speak of a calm state of mind or peace of mind, we shouldn't confuse that with an insensitive state of apathy. Having a calm or peaceful state of mind doesn't mean being spaced out or completely empty. Peace of mind or a calm state of mind is rooted in affection and compassion and is sensitive and responsive to others.
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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.
