Jamie Johnson Quotes
I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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I wanted to come back with the team I grew up with.
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I hyperventilate quite a lot.
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I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.
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It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
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The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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I do not know why it distressed me so much to see an animal die when human death did not move me. Perhaps because they were more beautiful, and there is no corruption in them, while in the best of men there can always be found some guilt or wickedness which seems to have earned him death.
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Because he never raises his eyes to the great and the meaningful, the philistine has taken experience as his gospel. It has become for him a message about life's commonness. But he has never grasped that there exists something other than experience, that there are values-inexperienceable-which we serve.
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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
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Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.
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If you guys are going to be throwing beer bottles at us, at least make sure they're full.
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When you've opened your heart to a child as you have to, there's always the fear that you may discover that the child is not viable. Losing that child is not a position you want to find yourself in.
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We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.
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[The] zero-sum caricature [applies] much more accurately to socialism, which stifles the creation of new wealth and thus fosters a dog-eat-dog struggle over existing material resources.
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I had hoped that foreboding economic circumstances would have caused the ultra-rich to think not just of themselves and increasing their own personal affluence. Unfortunately, however, too many of them lack concern, and without this concern, the divisive imbalance will only worsen with recession.
