James G. Frazer Quotes
The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.
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You cannot do only one thing.
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I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
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The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
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That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.
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The U.N. Security Council ordered Iraq in April 1991 to relinquish all capabilities to make biological, chemical and nuclear weapons as well as long-range missiles.
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Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)
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What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy’s point of view.
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The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.
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The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.
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When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
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paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.
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Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.
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The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.
