John Fiske Quotes
The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.
Quotes to Explore
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People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.
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I am from a family of farmers from Budhana near Muzaffarnagar.
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I'm on Tumblr all the time.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
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My predecessor, P. W. Botha, had an inner circle, and I did not like it. I preferred decisions to evolve out of cabinet discussions. That way, we achieved real co-ownership of our policies.
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He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.
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My head works in music, so there's always music there.
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I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.
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With Romeo and Juliet, you're talking about two people who meet one night, and get married the same night. I believe in love at first sight-but it hasn't happened to me yet.
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A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
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Some people wonder why they can't have faith for healing. They feed their body three hot meals a day, and their spirit one cold snack a week.
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When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.
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I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
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Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.
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The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war...
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The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can't find at home, which usually involves bringing their religion with them. One's children are going to be married to people outside their religious traditions as well as inside.
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Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.
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He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.
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The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.
