Mary Harris Jones Quotes
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.
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I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.
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The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
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I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
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To many, Homer may appear lazy and a loser, but he's just much misguided. He's boorish, sure, but well meaning and, I guess, the one thing we have in common is the pursuit of lousy diets.
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The law doesn't create a right.
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I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.
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The severe household has no fierce slaves, but it is the affectionate mother.
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I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.
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I've heard time and again from small business owners in Ohio that extending bonus depreciation is the single biggest factor in allowing their businesses to grow. Allowing companies to use these tools for capital reinvestment is a common-sense way to encourage job creation.
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Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
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I'm looking forward to getting back to my house and my Ugg boots and not washing sometimes, and getting back to writing.
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The others are even more likely to obey their god.Which is? It dangles between their legs.
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It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.
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I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.
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There were no artists in Ossining, which was the home of Sing Sing prison. Most of the parents of the guys I knew were guards there.
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There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.
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I abide where there is a fight against wrong.
