Byron Dorgan Quotes
I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.
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If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
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I love TV.
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I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.
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What's my audience? British society. Am I received relatively well? Yes. Is there within that... if you break it down, challenges with Muslim communities? Of course there are.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state and society - a system that has fostered unprecedented political, social, and intellectual freedom.
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I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
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I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
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Artists are political in the sense that they've subtracted themselves from the structure of the marketplace and are contributing something that's not utilitarian. Even though books get sold, and I get advances, I get to look at society and think for a living.
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I love poker!
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I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
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Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
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I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.
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Buy a stock at two, have it go to 30. You feel like you're on top of the world.
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The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.
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At the end of the day, especially in retail, you've got humans serving humans. And really, the more engaged and happier the associates are, the happier our guests are. It's not complicated.
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I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.
