Joseph Brodsky Quotes
For a head of state presiding over a ruined economy, an active army with its low wages is god-sent: All he's got to do is provide it with an objective.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
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And we did it because it's time for City Hall to stop looking out for City Hall and start looking out for the people like you and me who are footing the bill.
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Our kids just aren't living in the same generation, and if they're not introduced to gender identity as a problem, they won't internalize them as a problem. Which isn't to say they won't meet bigotry in their lives.
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A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
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It's such an advantage to be able to hit short irons low on command. When it's windy, you'll hit more greens. But low shots are a great strategy in calm conditions, too: The less time the ball hangs in the air, the less time it has to stray off line from the flagstick.
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But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
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For a head of state presiding over a ruined economy, an active army with its low wages is god-sent: All he's got to do is provide it with an objective.
