John Dos Passos Quotes
Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.
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Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
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The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
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But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.
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Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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I used to have this lucky rock and I used to always have to rub it three times before I competed.
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There is always safety in valor.
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I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.
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Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.
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Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.
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I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.
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Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
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I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains.
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Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.
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When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.
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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.
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Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).
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Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.
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But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man.
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Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.
