John Milton Quotes
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I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
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I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
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There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
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I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, really - is that 'The Motorcycle Diaries' made me feel like my home was bigger; it made me feel at home anywhere in Latin America.
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But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.
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The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.
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There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
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I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.
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Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.
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I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.
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I've been called communist, socialist, anti-American.
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I'm always asked if the songs that I write are therapeutic, and my answer is a quick no. In fact, it could be argued that they exacerbate my neurosis.
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One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.
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A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations. Abortion apologists will say this is because they want to serve the poor. You don't serve the poor, however, by taking their money to terminate their children.
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When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.
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Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.
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The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them.
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In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.
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We have to do a better job of taking care of the basketball, but their pressure had a lot to do with it.
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Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.
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Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.
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For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.
