Paul Wellstone Quotes
Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
Paul Wellstone
Quotes to Explore
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
Nathan Myhrvold
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson
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I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
Fiona Dourif
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
Natasha Trethewey
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When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
Dane Cook
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
Maimonides
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
Larry Niven
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My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he started calming down. He learned about life, but the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.
Adam Sandler
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What I'm talking about is both political and then also extra-political. Because what Donald Trump is doing is not simply to be measured in terms of its political effect. It's the very spiritual uplift of the nation. It's the very tenor and tone, morally speaking, of what this country is about. And so the unleashing of these fierce and ferocious beliefs have a potential impact that is quite deleterious, quite negative, quite destructive. And I think we have to say something.
Michael Eric Dyson
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You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.
Joel Osteen
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Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
Paul Wellstone
