George Horace Lorimer Quotes
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
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Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.
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The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.
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If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.
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I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.
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One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
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I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.
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If a big number of young pupils felt secularism was an attack on them, it was because the term had been misused and deformed in the public debate for years by the extreme-right and the right as an attack on Islam. The term had often been misused to point out how Muslims were different to others, and that is clearly problematic.
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It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.
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Burglars! Good gracious!' cried the little woman, springing from the bed in one bound. The word 'burglar' was a terrible one to her, as it is indeed, to every well-constituted woman. 'Robbery' does not sound nearly so awe-inspiring.
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
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I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.
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The SFPD has had a lot of issues, and I think one of the issues that needs to be addressed is the racist text messages that have been passed back and forth between PD members, not only talking about the community, but also talking about colleagues that work in the same department as them.
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I don't have any regrets. I wouldn't change a thing. You learn as you go.
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.
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Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.
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Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
