Matthew Arnold Quotes
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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People are wired for lots of things. We're wired for novelty. We're wired for humor. We're wired for new pieces of information that surprise us in some way or add value to our lives. We're wired for fear.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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I always say I was born too late in the world, too old.
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Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
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I can be intolerably jealous and I think that's what's driven me. My ambition knows no end.
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A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.
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The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
