John G. Schmitz Quotes
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
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Everyone takes a bad selfie - the first thing is to know that.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
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The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
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On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
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I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.
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Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do.
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I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.
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Mars is essentially in the same orbit. … Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
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Since the adjournment of Congress the ratifications of the treaty with Great Britain for abolishing the mixed courts for the suppression of the slave trade have been exchanged. It is believed that the slave trade is now confined to the eastern coast of Africa, whence the slaves are taken to Arabian markets.
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An ideal world can definitely be created with a pure mind and optimistic results.
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In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways - Who was to be the new Bishop?
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Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.
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You're the soldier girl who tells the other troops who haven't fought the battle what it's like so they can fight it better.
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The reproduction of labour power thus reveals as its sine qua non not only the reproduction of its ‘skills’ but also the reproduction of its subjection to the ruling ideology. ... It is in the forms and under the forms of ideological subjection that provision is made for the reproduction of the skills of labour power.
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We're not going to waltz into the postseason by any means.
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The good oxymoron, to define it by a self-illustration, must be a planned inadvertency.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Jews are like everybody else, only more so1
