Frank Knox Quotes
I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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There are a few players who don't like to think about the game.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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The emotions have been seen as the center of woman's soul. For that reason, emotional formation will have to be centrally placed in woman's formation.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
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I really had to imagine the kind of person that I would have been if I had never left my hometown. I don't think I would have been a very pleasant person.
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The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.
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A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.
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Studying cancer could provide huge insights for astrobiologists into the nature of life itself.
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I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.
