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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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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It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
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A sure indicator of true religion is a concern for the poor of the earth.
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The mentality has taken over because of the way we've promoted things. It's been accepted, to live with fear, and to fear that it's going to be terrible, prepare for the worst. The meat and potato of our existence right now is influenced by what happened after 9/11 - we put our thinking into protecting borders.
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I use the iPhone and iPad every day, and I no longer touch PCs at all.
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Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
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I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
