Johan Huizinga Quotes
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
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I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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Above the mists on Hatheg-Kla, earth's gods sometimes dance reminiscently; for they know they are safe, and love to come from unknown Kadath in ships of clouds and play in the olden way, as they did when earth was new and men not given to the climbing of inaccessible places.
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Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward he can only do so during the life of man. it is therefore here below that the just must prosper and the impious suffer.
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I think that it's important that we understand the importance of the Hispanic vote in America.
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Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
