Frank Chodorov Quotes
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There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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Composition has almost always been solitary.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.
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I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.
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Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
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Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.
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We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?
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Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.
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Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people.
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If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.
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Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional.
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Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
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I used to have this illusion that time and remote areas prepare you for the world. Our moms used to think that kind of thing. Well, it doesn't prepare you for the world at all!
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When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American.
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Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.
