James L. Buckley Quotes
If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.
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Marylanders are among the nation's hardest working and most educated people. We have universities and schools that are among the best in the nation.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
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Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.
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If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
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The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
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I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
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For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.
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Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species.
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I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.
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With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.
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If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.
