John Rampton Quotes
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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I think I really benefited from going to college.
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Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.
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Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
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We need to build opt-in society, outside the U.S., run by technology.
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American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.
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'Ali' is the story of a lower middle-class golfer who becomes a champion. I find the game very interesting and would like to continue playing it regularly after the movie is wrapped up.
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I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.
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Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt Black Panther Party and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels … that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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They're lining up the prisoners And the guards are taking aim I struggled with some demons They were middle-class and tame I didn't know I had permission to murder and to maim.
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The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.
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There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
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Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!
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Specifically, the reservation of sovereignty to the people of the states in matters not governed by federal law is constitutionally defined and permanently enshrined in the 10th Amendment.
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Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.
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Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.
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Never define yourself in terms of how you are negatively affected by others.
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The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!
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Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances.
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If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
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Always have a plan when you shop. Have your list ready so that you know who you're purchasing gifts for and an estimate on how much you're going to spend.
