Francis Parker Yockey Quotes
If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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If people hate me they hate me.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.
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My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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We have met the enemy and he is us.
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You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.
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When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.
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I think of myself as a content creator and, hopefully one day, a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.
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We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary.
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I like to be who I am.
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Poor Gauguin, 'way off there on his island! I'll wager he spends most of his time thinking of Rue Lafitte. I advised him to go to New Orleans, but he decided it was too civilized. He had to have people around him with flowers on their heads and rings in their noses before he could feel at home. Now if I should leave my house for more than two days...
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I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.
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You were right," said the Master impressed by the neatness of Korovyov's work, "when you said: no documents, no person. So that means I don't exist since I don't have any documents.
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In Tbilisi in 1990, I recall watching zealous Georgians smash statues of Lenin and Stalin. A few days earlier, though, in Moscow I had been invited to address the Red Army, as one of the first Brits to benefit from Glasnost. The subject they chose: The Cuban Missile Crisis.
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If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?
