John Shirley Quotes
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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I have always liked to get my pictures taken, and I like taking care of my looks. But, I am not one to use beauty products and treatments.
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We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
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Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which money can be laid out than in the education of children.
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May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
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I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.
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Now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
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If I try harder I might be reincarnated as a lonely virgin hiding behind a cartoon frog.
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It is the weak man who urges compromise-never the strong man.
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Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations... In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.
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Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
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Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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Adia I do believe I failed you.Adia I know I let you down.Don't you know I tried so hardTo love you in my way.It's easy let it go...Adia I'm empty since you left me.Trying to find a way to carry on.I search myself and everyoneTo see where we went wrong.
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It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.
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Obama has a strong record on immigration enforcement, outdoing both Republican and Democratic predecessors. He has deported over 1 million immigrants, focusing on those with criminal records. As documented by many nonpartisan sources, by 2011, Obama had reduced illegal immigration crossings to net zero.
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There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
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Success is like failure, It's how you perceive it, It's what you do with it, not how you achieve it.
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I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.
