James G. Frazer Quotes
The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.
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The ADA is the living testament to our Nation's commitment that we will always stand up for our neighbors' right to live fulfilling lives.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.
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My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.
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I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.
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If I can go from burglar for the government to talk show host, you can go from entertainer to congressman.
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.
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If you believe in something then you should do it dont let anything stand in your way.
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Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes. I'm going to look stupid. I'm going to say things I want to retract. I'm going to sing notes I wish I could have back, there's just no getting around the stumble, but if you stumble enough times you're going to fall off the edge and have no choice but to freakin' fly.
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To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
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When you are captain, you are never speaking for yourself.
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What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms...
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I started out making $4 for my first fight, but imagine paying $25,000 for a painting...look at me!
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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
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Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.
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There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. As this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them.
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Anti-social behaviour still blights lives, wrecks communities and provides a pathway to criminality.
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Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?
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The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
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You've got to know how to howl to give yourself an escape route.
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The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.
