George Herbert Mead Quotes
In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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They pollute. It's not because morally they have a problem, but more because the mechanism now is rewarding those who cut corners to save cost.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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I am more vintage than I am high fashion.
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The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it's a wonderful thing. You've got to come from somewhere else to realize how valuable it is.
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Here's how I look at it: Life is full of challenges. Everybody has them. For some, it's health or family crises. I had a financial challenge.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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Avarice is a deadly sin.
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I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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I feel that destiny is a mixture of preparation and luck. You can be very lucky, but it is useless if you're not prepared. You can be prepared, but it is useless if you're not lucky.1
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I like Sergio Ramos, who plays Real Madrid.
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When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.
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In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.
