Jon Lee Anderson Quotes
That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
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If I'm going to compare myself to a candidate, it's Rick Scott. It's not Donald Trump.
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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.
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Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.
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Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
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We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.
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It's a very difficult position to be in personally. It's uncomfortable to be opposing a non-profit organization that is doing restoration projects.
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Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it
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There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
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At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.
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Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.
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Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
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That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.
