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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The nice thing about publishing later in life is that you already know who you are. You don't have to hang out with the 'Paris Review' crowd to try to make yourself feel like a legitimate writer.
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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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I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.
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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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Fascists are flourishing politically in France and Italy, and now comes the murder of Pim Fortuyn, a populist politician who might have done well enough in the forthcoming Dutch elections to hold the balance of power in that country's parliament. But it is the widespread Jew-baiting that best reveals that Europeans are evidently incapable of learning from their history. France is the outright prizewinner where anti-Semitism is concerned.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.
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Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.
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Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you then: You have forgot the will I told you of. . . . . Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. . . . . Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?
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Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
