James Russell Lowell Quotes
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Quotes to Explore
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The modern economy is becoming a place where women hold the cards.
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Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
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I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like.
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People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I know what falling off the cliff means. I know from being considered a very bright kid to being considered like a moron and dropping out of school.
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As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
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In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.
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When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.
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Everybody acknowledges that the current path we're on is unsustainable, not just for the people who don't have health insurance but for those who do.
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I grew up as a cameraman, so it's much easier for me to shoot it myself. I work with an operator and a crew, but it's way easier for me to function as a cinematographer, than to have a cinematographer between me and the lens. I don't need that.
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Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.
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The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.
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Why do I feel ashamed to use words like democracy and freedom and brotherhood? They don't have meaning anymore. I have nothing to write about any more. Remember all that writing I did? I was going to be a great socialist writer. I can't make sense of a word, a simple word.
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Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
