John Robert Seeley Quotes
... The chief forces which hold a community together and cause it to constitute one State are three, common nationality, common religion, and common interest.
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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I still keep my accent.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'
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I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
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If we're talking about guys who set the tone, you've got to go way back. But if we're talking about guys who made it possible for guys like A.J. Styles, Shawn Michaels kind of opened that door, along with Daniel Bryan.
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When a child begins to play games... he enters the gateway to reason and imagination together.
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I think the business community is smart enough to realise that just having a trade union is not enough. They are smart enough to know they need to be part of a union that has political and financial power.
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Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.
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The normal 21-year-old doesn't have to worry about their night out being put on TMZ.
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Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was so dark and I was so weightless that I had to look for my bubbles to be sure which way was up. I swam backward a little away from the boat and into outer space and waved my arm through the water. Sure enough the phosphorescents appeared trailing my movement like the tail of a shooting star. I let myself tip upside down and floated there watching the gentle snowstorm marveling that a world of such strangeness existed here all the time just under the surface.
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... The chief forces which hold a community together and cause it to constitute one State are three, common nationality, common religion, and common interest.
