John T. Flynn Quotes
All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
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I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I put it to you that there are no British poets, there are no British novelists. I have heard myself described as one, but I think really I'm an English novelist; there are Scottish poets and Scottish novelists.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact the Hitchcock estate, which won't release it for a remake.
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We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.
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Curiosity is vital to the growth of our society.
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Chess first of all teaches you to be objective.
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Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.
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Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity, mechanism, materialism.
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All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.
