Jacques Barzun Quotes
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
Beau Bridges
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
T. S. Eliot
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
Rafael Nadal
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Walter Scott
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
Tarja Halonen
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
Naomi Klein
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If you have two parents who have to work, who want to work, you need to have someone to guide your child.
Laura Linney
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
J. B. Smoove
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
Nathan Myhrvold
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
Samantha Power
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Kate Brown
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
Hannah Simone
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
G. Willow Wilson
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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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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
Sam Kean
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
Lady Gregory
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
Saint Augustine
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I've learned that the best political reporters never make predictions!
Jodi Kantor
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When you look at 'Grapes of Wrath,' the weakest moments are those in which Steinbeck is spouting a political idea directly at the reader. The book's real power comes from its slower, broader movement.
Philipp Meyer
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I think there's a weapon of cynicism to say, 'Protest doesn't work. Organizing doesn't work. Y'all are a bunch of hippies. You know, it doesn't do anything,' because, frankly, it's said out of fear, because it is a potent force for political change.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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By the time I got involved, Blockbuster had already worked out some of the kinks.
Wayne Huizenga
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Love Is Louder is a movement that is hopefully going to bring some awareness and make some noise when it comes to teens who are feeling suicidal or even just sad, outcasts, and being bullied, and really feel like they have nowhere to turn to.
Brittany Snow
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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
Jacques Barzun