John Sergeant Wise Quotes
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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I played cover gigs and traveled the country in my mom's old car, and my drummer and I set up a fake email and sent it out to agents. We pretended to be our own agent.
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My idea of fast food is a mallard.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.
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As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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A grandchild barely able to remember Harry's own mother But can Ma be no more than that in this child's memory? Do we dwindle so fast to next to nothing?
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Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girls are always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.
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We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.
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But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.
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Worries carry responsibilitie s that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.
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In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.
