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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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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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.
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I think theater is a core need of a community.
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The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
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The key to terror, the key to terrorism, is not the act - but the fear of the act. That is why bin Laden and his deputies and his imitators are forever putting together videotaped statements and releasing virtual infomercials with dire threats and heart-stopping warnings. But why is the Republican Party imitating them? Bin Laden puts out what amounts to a commercial of fear; The Republicans put out what is unmistakable as a commercial of fear. The Republicans are paying to have the messages of bin Laden and the others broadcast into your home.
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I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.
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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.
