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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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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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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I feel like because black Cuban artists don't have the kind of pressure to thematize race in the way that African-American artists do, there's more space for them to do their art without having to discuss it in terms of racial identity.
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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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The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading.
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Well, by all means please let's decentralize policing.
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We don't want to get into a spot with Steve where we're going to cost him an opportunity someplace. But he is still determined that he is going to play on this hockey club. We're open to that too. It has a lot to do with the respect we have for him as a player and an individual.
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It is in between your thoughts, where you will discover your greatest FLOW from Spirit.
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I shall strive to inculculate in my men the spirit of the chase.
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The persecuting spirit has its origin... in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct.
