James Connolly Quotes
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.James Connolly
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What's really important to me is that we have fiscally responsible balanced budgets.
Maggie Hassan -
I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
Irwin Thomas -
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
Vera Wang -
I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
Dakota Fanning -
Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
Pamela Sargent -
You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
Parker Posey
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
Walter Ulbricht -
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp -
I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
Mahmoud Abbas -
Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
Hakeem Jeffries -
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I know what poverty is.
Manny Pacquiao -
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
Samuel Adams -
Women get scrutinized based on appearance far more than men. And look, I speak from experience here. When I wear a bad outfit on the air, I get viewer e-mail complaining about it. A lot of e-mail. Seriously.
Brown Campbell -
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
Patrick Kavanagh -
The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.
Patrick O'Brian
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
Kapil Dev -
It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.
Taylor Lautner -
In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
Victor Pinchuk -
The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I do believe that a belief in God is crazy, but that doesn't mean that the people who believe in it are crazy. Those are two different things. Ideas can be stupid and crazy, and the people who hold those ideas are not necessarily stupid and crazy.
Penn Jillette -
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.
James Connolly