Martin Niemoller Quotes
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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Country ham is baked whole, usually with a glaze, sometimes studded with cloves, and served as the centerpiece of Christmas and Easter feasts.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
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My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.
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That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.
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'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.
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The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession.
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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
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It's a funny thing about cities: Some have brief, bright moments of cultural and political dominance, decades- or centuries-long spells when they seem the center of their particular nation, or region, or empire... only to later fall into obscurity and disrepair, never to regain their former glory.
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In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.
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The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
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I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?
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It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity.
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It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.
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Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.
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Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
