Jeane Kirkpatrick Quotes
Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
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Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.
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I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.
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I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
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I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something.
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I refute it thus.
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The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of 'a moment of their other lives' - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
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Symbols have a reach and a roundness that goes beyond their literal and practical meaning. They are the rich concepts under which the mind gathers many particulars into one name, and many instances into one general induction.
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Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.
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In our island myth this was the prescribed end of marriages like mine: the wife goes off with someone from the Cercle Sportif, outside whose gates at night the willingly betrayed husband waits in his motorcar. The circumstances were slightly.
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And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.
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Life was to be lived - not torpidly dozed through in this queer cultured place, where age was in the blood! Life was for love - to be enjoyed!
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Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.
